Looking at our goals, we can compare them to the list of the primary Core extensions like:

• Banners
• Contacts
• Content
• Mass Mail
• Media Manager
• Newsfeeds
• Polls
• Users
• Weblinks

Not all of these map to our goals, Mass Mail, for instance, isn't in our goals, nor do all our goals have a matching extension here. None of these would allow an easy method for users to upload their own images or videos to a public gallery. But some do map to our goals, and we can fill those in as shown here:

1. Staff to submit and customers to read articles, videos, audio, and so on

• Content to submit and read articles
• Media Manager to upload images, audio, and videos
• Display audio and video—None

2. Submit pictures and videos of customer's own houses/land/gardens to a public gallery :

• None

3. Ask questions to each other and discuss topics

• None

4. Grow an income from ad supported free members and subscriptions

• Banners could be used for ads, but is a simple interface
• Subscriptions—None

5. Staff to submit useful links for display to customers

• Weblinks component can fill this role

6. Customer comments on our articles

• None

7. Ability to collect, moderate, and display user testimonials to build trust

• None

8. Convert default web page URLs to human readable links

• Built-in Joomla SEF links is a simple interface, possibly not suitable

So we can fulfill one of our goals well with the Weblinks component, one can be half fulfilled with the content component, although it is missing some things. Some others are partially filled, but we may be able to find a better 3PD solution for: Banners, SEO links, and Media Manager.

Fortunately for us, I have a very good working knowledge of 3PD extensions, and my own company, Ninja Forge (ninjaforge.com), has produced several dozen, so we won't need to do as much searching for our sample site as others may have to.

So let's take a look at our remaining goals and what extensions we could choose from.