Outside of being a Joomla component, thus requiring no bridge, there is nothing special about Fireboard. For the faint of heart, you should use a local server (ie., XAMPP) first to install and test this. The convoluted back-end alone will leave you with a swollen head, and then the lack of basic board restrictions will make you glad you passed on converting a production site to Fireboard.

If you need to restrict members from viewing other forums/boards, stick with SMF or PHPBB - no integration with Joomla, but at least they offer 'basic' forum features.

Probably geared toward the patient, very patient. As mentioned in another review, the audio is often times choppy, rendering some remarks unintelligible. Who is at fault I do not know - maybe Mozilla, maybe Adobe, maybe Camtasia, maybe the author's equipment. Regardless of the audio shortcoming, and while the author obviously has good intentions, someone else (a professional) should conduct the tutorials.

The author often jumped from point to point so quickly I was still looking at the Dreamweaver screen and had to rewind the video to catch up - a script is desperately needed.

PROS: This works better than anything available, commercial or otherwise. For you folks struggling to get your XAMPP created Web site onto a remote server, this is your ticket to Easy Street! The backend control panel is minimalistic and to the point, which is the way it should be. Be sure to download the latest PDF manual - the step-by-step instructions are only necessary the first few times you use JoomlaPack.

While JoomlaCloner is decent enough, it fell short horribly when I wanted to 'clone' a client's locally created site - it could not configure the new SQL database properly. I resigned myself to either dragging modified CSS and PHP files from the local server to the FTP server, or creating the site from scratch on the remote server.

CONS: The ONLY feature I miss is the ability to exclude individual files and components from the backup process. If the developer includes this in a future version, JoomlaPack would be complete!

No word wrap! Long lines of code go off into the sunset making this add-on more difficult to use than the default source editor it could have replaced. For all its features, I'll stick with the default editor. So close yet so far.