I've spent several days getting a competent install of this extension and the results are very good. You must tweak the XML files and the two html files to build a viable component for your site. The tweaks are simple and well explained.

Documents are available, but there are still many missing links in information. The documents are adequate for doing the install, and you have to read them carefully.

The ability to apply a URL link to images is supposed to be available in the latest RC. I think the feature is working. I just can't find information on how to apply the links to images, nor can I find a way to turn off the feature. So users can click on the full view image and they get a big error message. The reason they click on the images is because the limitations on image size are 400x400 for best use. Images within the 400x400 are adequate for all my applications. Users will undoubtably click to enlarge, if they're interested in an image.

There is mention that a background image can be applied in lieu of background colors, which is also obviously a feature when you run the demo. The problem is... I cannot find anywhere on the slooz.com site or by googling how to apply a background image.

The files are stored in jpg format, and that is all the gallery recognizes. It is an html app so all your files are within a folder on your site, not in MySql database. This might have some security implications.

I did give up on this as a Joomla component install, because I don't have the DOM, iconv extensions enabled, nor do I allow_url_fopen turned on in php. I just installed it as a standalone application, which is pretty easy to do. I just use a Joomla wrapper to access it.

The slooz.com (homesite) has a forums, but the activity is practically nil. It appears to me you'll probably get better responses to questions among Joomla users.

I definitely like the expose4. I've got one site with over 2,000 images and the expose works very well working with that many images very flexibly. It's not boring to use, it manages images in a kind of fluid manner, and
and definitely does not appear to be a rigid application to users. (that's important to me)

I highly recommend as a standalone application.

I installed this component on my site.

I couldn't access it after it installed. Then I removed it and it crapped my Joomala site ver 1.0.12.

Whenever my server pointed to the index.php when loading the site it would jump back to http:///

All I did was remove the component.

I like this component, but there are a few issues. Ver.081

1) The questions are right justified and stacked upon each other. This is not workable or sites. I tried about 10 different site themes to make sure. I didn't tamper with the code.

2) The questions do have the ability to have a value assigned to them and those values added and accumulated. This is by category therefore if you have several groups of questions you do not have an accumulation feature for compiling all the categories into one sum.

3) This component is probably workable for some, but I doubt it is viable "as it is" for most commercial CMS type sites.