I have used this component for about 6 months and found it to be very reliable. The flexibility to adapt the layout and presentation using files in a dedicated template directory is very easy and clearly structured.

The process of adding listings, approval and display by the admin is practical and effective.

There are a lot of configuration options, ranging from the number of listings per page through to display per listing of recommend, maps, website and claim.

My only minor gripes are
1) that spam might be a problem on some of the pages because there is no "captcha" display of letters for viewers to interpret and enter on a validation form. Therefore I have turned off some of the user options to protect against spambot abuse.
2) Whilst featured listings are supported, and you can link a single listing across two or more categories, its not possible to use the same listing text and have one featured and one standard entry in multiple categories. This means entering listings twice in some cases.

Yes, its true there is little or no documentation, but the package is very easy to install and operate. For the price, this is really excellent value and highly recommended.

I wanted a simple and straightforward way of display some of my customers logos on the site in random order. This should be maximum compatibility, so no flash and should include fade transitions on both IE and Firefox. I fiddled around with a variety of extensions, some with considerably more options - RSGallery2, SmoothGallery etc. However, some needed additional lines installed in the template index.php file; others had many additional options I didn't need. Ajax Header Rotator worked straight out of the box with very little effort to install and setup. I would recommend you preprocess your images to all be the same size (so don't require online on-the-fly resizing/shaping) - because my input files were of different sizes and aspect ratios, this would not have worked well with any of the packages I tried. I used Irfanview which could have batch processed the files if they were of the same input size, or manually for each image. It seems to work OK with about 30 random images - I think more would impose longer load times on the page initially but haven't confirmed this. There appears to be no conflict with JRE Caching either.

So full marks to Joomlaworks for an excellent and free addition to the extensions piece. Simple, easy to install, "does what it says on the tin."