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How to build your private Facebook Clone
Social media plays an important part for online community today. Here we will present to you a collection of tutorials to help you create your very own Facebook clone on your website.
Installing Joomla
Joomla is a popular Content Management system that’s powerful, yet easy to install & configure. With a vast selection of 3rd party extensions (over 7500+), you can easily find one that will help you extend the power of Joomla-- including the open source social networking script, JomSocial.
There are currently two versions of Joomla that are widely used: Joomla 1.5 and 1.6. If you want full compatibility with 3rd party extensions and templates, Joomla 1.5 is your best choice since most developers have only just begun to release 1.6 versions of their most popular extensions.
If, however, you want better performance and your 3rd party extensions are all compatible with Joomla 1.6 (no worries as JomSocial is 1.5 AND 1.6 compatible), then you might be better off with Joomla 1.6 as it’s easier to use, offers more security features and loads much faster than Joomla 1.5.
Most hosting providers provide auto installation for Joomla, which makes it super easy for Joomla ‘newbies’ to get Joomla installed and running on their server. If your preferred hosting provider does not offer Joomla installation services, the best tutorial to install Joomla yourself can be found here.
Installing JomSocial
JomSocial can transform a dull, static Joomla website into a thriving, interactive & lively Facebook-like community in no time at all. With JomSocial, you are getting a full-featured, award-winning social[link to homepage] networking tool for your website. Your members can share media (photos & videos), update their statuses, make friends and organize events--all without leaving your website. It truly is “instant community for your website!”
If you do not have hosting yet, you can checkout our hosting partners who will provide Joomla+JomSocial installation for free.
Get your favorite theme
Joomla has many attractively-designed 3rd party templates that you can use for your website/community...and many of them support JomSocial and feature built-in styles for JomSocial which gives your website and community a consistent design throughout.
Rockettheme recently released Tachyon theme and it has multiple styles for JomSocial.
There’s also, Socialite by Joomlashack
JA Social by JoomlArt is a good choice too:
If you want to go a bit further to imitate Facebook, Ooompa offers their Fakebook theme. Please mind that Facebook might not be happy with the usage of the look-alike image.
4. Get some JomSocial Addons
There are many free & commercial 3rd party JomSocial add-ons (plugins) available if you’d like to add additional features to your community--such as paid membership, live chat, more than 130 translation files and much more. If you want to move away from a community that looks just like Facebook, then installing JomSocial and one of its many 3rd party addons will help yours stand out from the crowd.