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Joomap
 Instant Sitemaps + Google, September 12, 2007

Joomap This is a slick little sitemap tool. Just install and go. The generated sitemap can be customized to meet the need of your site and it works well with other extensions.

Note that for publishing the Google Sitemap produced by Joomap I utilized two other add-ons:

1) Google SiteMaps Plugin from JoomX - a 'bot which publishes the Google Sitemaps confirmation code

2) ARTIO JoomSEF - an SEF component which I used to create a shortcut to the sitemap (/sitemap instead of /index.php?blahblah)

Google SiteMaps Plugin
 Perfect!, September 12, 2007

Google SiteMaps Plugin This is the perfect 'bot. It does exactly one function and works correctly. I just installed, published, entered my Google code and saved.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a bot (not a module or component), and it simply publishes the Google Sitemaps verification code on your site. In order to actually generate the Google Sitemap you must have the Joomap component installed.

Make Contact
 Excellent e-mail form!, September 7, 2007

Make Contact This module is an excellent replacement for the standard Joomla contact page. It is very basic, providing only one function and doing it properly. (Why should I have to setup a full forms solution on my site just to get messages?) Also, if you need to have forms for multiple e-mail addresses simply copy the module. While this isn't a great solution for sites requiring multiple contacts, most of the sites I work with need a single contact form on the site, and I hate the built-in Joomla system.

A couple features I would love to see in the future:
* Allow the sender to also receive a copy of the email
* Create a 'bot with the same parameters that does the same function so that the contact form can be included within a content item.

Thanks for a simple solution to a simple (yet annoying) problem!

joomlaXplorer
 Keeps getting better, August 26, 2007
1 of 2 people find this review helpful:

joomlaXplorer joomlaXplorer was one of my favorite extensions, but it keeps getting better. Adding native FTP support lets me do absolutely anything right from my browser. This extension is the next best thing to have desktop access to the web server, and is far easier to use for most tasks than SSH or SFTP clients.

I recommend this to all site admins, especially if you don't have 100% control over your own servers (for example, because you are using a hosting service).

Note that I have been using this extension for more than a year and have not experienced any security issues due to its installation.

Great job and thanks for making my life so much easier!

JoomlaStats
 Simple and comprehensive, August 26, 2007
1 of 1 people find this review helpful:

JoomlaStats This very simple-to-use extension simply provides everything you need in statistics and traffic reporting. Report by day, month, year, or all-time. See reports on browsers, systems, bots, referrers and more! This extension has made it on all of my sites since I discovered it. Thanks for a great component!

Deep Pockets II
 Wow!, August 26, 2007

Deep Pockets II This component will be the #1 install on all of my websites from this point forward. This is the level of flexibility I have been wanting/needing for my content!

For anyone looking to have ultimate control on their content hierarchy and display within Joomla, look no further.

Acajoom News
 Good start, August 1, 2006

Acajoom News Let me start by saying that Acajoom is not a bad product, I just feel that it has a way to go yet before it is usable in a production system. That being said it is better than any other mass mailing system I have tried to use with Joomla.

Acajoom support multiple Lists, each with its own subscriber, and multiple newsletters per list. The subscriber list may be started with the existing Joomla User database (Community Builder supported), and new users can be automatically added to a list.

Acajoom has comprehensive statistics gathering and reporting on the messages sent, unfortunately it does not seem to work for me. I can view the statistics pages, but everything is blank.

My single biggest complaint is that my very first production e-mail attempt crashed about 12% of the way through. Instead of launching a background process to send the e-mails, Acajoom tries to send them all in a page load. I'm sure this is fine for small lists, but mine is almost 700. The good news is that unlike the built-in Joomla e-mail function, Acajoom actually completes the page load without timing out. There is no recovery system though, to re-send only to failed recipients.

My second complaint is much more minor. The interface to the tool, while pretty and effective is a bit troublesome. Sometimes it just doesn't work as expected (back button), while other times it seems glitchy.

Overall a great start, but I would like to see it cleaned up a bit. I would like the ability to better control the specific parameters of sending mail, as well as a recovery tool for failed send attempts. I would also like to be able to build lists automatically based upon a specific field in the User table (Community Builder support would be great). That way you could build a list for, say, everybody in a specific state or country and have the list keep itself up-to-date automatically based upon the users' profiles.