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How about a paypal donations box? How about using the six levels of login (3 back, 3 front) to do a community effort? Try an automated emailing list, an mp3 player, podcasts, internal statistics, even a community builder for membership organizations. And oh so much more.

Don't be afraid, most of the 1880+ extensions in there are free, just like the Joomla core files.

Beyond the basis Joomla! structure, there are basically three things to this. There are components which add a function that will be seen 'within' the page in (usually) the center section. An examples of a component used on the current version of taosplaza.com is the 7-day weather forecast in the Features section. Modules are generally on the side of the pages. Module examples on the top of a taosplaza.com are 1) Google Advertising Module, 2) Taos Webcam Module, 3) Google Search Module, 4) main menu module, 5) Google Advertising Module. Mambots are things that are installed into the site that help out with a task, but almost always 'behind the scenes'. An example of this is the way we post videos on taosplaza.com. A Mambot allows us to post video from dozens of video services in the same way for each site. A built in WYSIWYG Editor is a Mambot.

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