Something which is definately a "good to know" when using the backend. I installed it and published to header without issues.

To answer the query below. Load averages are UNIX averages for servers. They are shown through the "uptime" command ((or others like "top").

The values represent the amount of "load" on the server ie:

last 1 minute : last 5 minutes : last 15 minutes

Load averages are *NOT* measures of cpu usage, although cpu load does play a factor in the measurement. The values represent the load on a server and this includes cpu, io, vm, etc.

A server that is lightly loaded, will sit between values of 0 - 1.

A server with heavy load will be above 1 and could go to 90 (very rare but I have seen it happen). Any values between 5 and 10 normally get sluggish responses (depends on the OS of course).

If your load average is consistently above 1 however, that means the server is very busy alot of the time and you may need to performance tune apps, server, or get a better server.

As others below have stated, this module is great but has a couple of shortcomings being:

* the non-integration of joomla users into the chatter

* the "gabbly.com" reference

I also find it cumbersome to have the chatter "jailed" within the browser window, it would be much better to have this as a pop-up and allow the users to move that around their desktop.

Another nice feature would be to allow the "right-side bar" to be automatically selected when the user enters the chatter.

I have emailed the author directly a couple of times on these issues and he doesn't reply.

This module is not recommended for install unless you don't mind the above issues.

Does exactly what it's supposed to do.

After extracting, copying and configuring, I created a menu item to open in a new browser window. Worked fine and gives an interesting look to the content of the site.

The thing two things I didn't like about it were the centre of the mindmap saying "Generated by MamboMindmap" and the top left saying "This sitemap was generated by JoomlaMindmap".

I don't mind so much the "advertising" but I do mind it when I can't easily turn it off without hacking code. The option to turn off these or rename them should be part of the config.

Other than that, it seems like a nice way to view the sitemap.

This is a very nice add-on for the Joomla Admin. It does make life somewhat easier but still could use some improvement (not using the icon format for example and using a tree format, for example).

Either way, it was very well documented (very rare for Joomla addons), easy to install and easy to configure. The README.TXT should contain a simple process for how to create a new icon item though. One paragraph should be fine.

I've reviewed quite alot of extensions and although this extension seems to be good, I haven't had the positive experiences others talk about below and wouldn't rate it as highly as others have.

I ran FWResize for about a month before finally getting rid of it. The problem it produces is that when you install other extensions, it/they don't play nice together and show MASSIVE font sizes, only to have me (the admin) go into the php script of the 3rd party extensions and either comment out or remove the "font size" settings on the displayed words/titles so that FWResize could control the sizes.

I thought this was because some bugs existed in the 3rd party extensions, when I finally spent the time to trouble-shoot the problem and discovered it was FWResize that was causing the issues.

Although I believe the principle of accessibility is important, this caused me more headache and administration than was actually worth it (afterall, all browsers I know of have the ability to resize fonts anyway).

My opinion, don't use until you have thoroughly tested it on your test site before putting it onto production.

It's surprising how quickly this software becomes useful for statistics collections, although it's still beta and many of the modules are early release or alpha stage, the developers promise continued improvements. It's already very nice and many of the modules are already usable.

Although when going to their website and registering, no matter what I did I was unable to actually login to the site, even though my username and password were correct (confirmed in email on registration), it fails login with incorrect username and/or password each time. When trying to "reset" the password using their "forgotten password" feature, Joomla returns "password reset failed". I tried to find other ways on the site to contact them but to no avail.

Because of this, I couldn't get involved in the support forums. For example, I would have liked the "Latest Visitors" module to not show the "Real Name" of the Joomla user but just the "Username", I wanted to mention that in the forums but without a login, I couldn't leave a forum message.

Anyway.. none of that detracts from the component, it's useful and worth the installation.

You can't blame the authors for all the English mods we have to make to the component since they are German, but they really should give us the ability to report bugs to them in a bug tracker (on joomlaforge) or similar. I'll just be emailing them at the email address shown above letting them know what needs to be changed.

I had a problem saving the configuration setting using Internet Explorer (surprise surprise), but using Firefox worked fine.

There is quite a bit of english updates that need to be done to correct spelling and grammar, but once done this seems to be a nice component, just needs some tidying up.

A small "how-to" would also help I think, since it takes some working out to try and categorise FAQs.

This component is very nice and does what it says, but can be improved in some usability aspects including:

* Backend Admin area: when adding categories, re-display an entry field after clicking submit (instead of pressing the back key all the time).

* having different CSS templates, and making them selectable from the backend admin area. The one included doesn't go well with my "dark" background so I need to do some work on the css to make it look right.

* an option in the backend to remove the "GroupJive 1.1" footer within the component. I'm all for promoting extensions I use, but the option to remove that label should still be there instead of the admin hacking the php code.

Other than those feature enhancements, the com is quite nice and the author has done a good job.

This module does exactly as advertised. It's very easy to install and configure.

In trying to think of improvements, the only thing I can think of is having a "check version" facility in the backend to make sure admins are always running the latest version.

Unfortunately, there's no way to know of version upgrades without manually checking the joomla extensions website or manually entering the backend to run update checks on different modules.

joomlaforge has a good "monitor" section (which emails the subscriber of changes to projects or files), so maybe it's an idea to include mod_votd on forge.joomla.org so admins can monitor releases when they're posted there?

I'm hoping one day Joomla itself can do similar to Mozilla/Firefox extensions and allow for the checking of mod/com versions with the click of a key.

For now though, as other modules are slowly going the "check-update" route, it would be good for mod_votd to also have it (and good for it to be registered on joomlaforge so admins can monitor releases).

Either way, this is a good module if you're running any type of Christian site.

This is a very nice shoutbox, although I don't really like the scrollbar that pops up when listing all the messages in the window, and I personally wouldn't mind the option for a horizontal shoutbox (however weird that sounds, it would be useful).

With regards to no template modification, this just isn't the case. A template mod is required, just add a couple of lines (supplied by the author) into your index.php. Without adding those lines, the module still shows up but it doesn't work (adding comments, smileys, etc fails).