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Community Builder (CB) is one of the hottest extensions for Joomla. While the CB component itself is fairly straight forward getting to know what works with it can be a daunting task. Beat and the other guys over at Joomlapolis.com have done a great job in creating a great component with a great community. They even have links to other modules and components that work with Community Builder for Joomla. Even with all that it can still be a trial and error process to see what works for you and your site in particular. That being said I am going to take you on a tour of Community Builder. In the tour I will show you:

1. What Community Builder is (or at least give you an idea).
2. How to install CB.
3. Some CB configuration
4. How to and why I install joomblog with some of my personal modifications
5. How to install joomlaboard with CB (and why joomlaboard is used most often with CB rather than SMF or phpBB)
6. Things to consider when choosing a profile gallery component (gallery 2 with bridge, cb profile gallery, zoom gallery)
7. Which Private Messaging System (PMS) I use
8. Some more CB configuration (adding tabs, fields and menus