I have looked at almost every news module there is and I liked the promise of this one.

Unfortunately I get a phpthumbs error message every time I try it. Have not had this issue with any other Module so I assume it has something to do with the thumb-nailing feature it has built in. Odd thing is it will happen on an article that has NO image.

I have only seen one other person have this issue so it's pretty isolated and I can't fault them for that - so if it works for you great. - just as a warning to others.

The module actually did have promise, and could potentially provide users with a great tool. Unfortunately, the first version of the module had a few bugs. We tried numerous times to get support, but got none. They did upgrade the module to a newer version, but this had even more flaws, which were brought to their attention, but again no response. If you are an html expert, you might want to try it to see if you can get it to work. Otherwise, there are a lot of other great products out there that do work, and the respective companies will support them. Save your time and money. Good luck!

At first look a good addition to Joomla , however there is a problem with the Max Intro lenght. E.g. if the text says "Bla di bla dibla the 5e" and the max intro length stops at "5e" then everything else that follows is in superscript. So the module does not count only the characters but also the html-code inside the article to the max length, that means that each artivle has a different length, depending on the amount of html code inside the article.

Its easy to set up and do exactly what it say....

I was looking for a module which show latest news content.

Good work :)

This module does exactly what I needed it for - I'm very impressed

it lays out the articles nicely with the thumbs to the left or right

make for quick work on leading news / event posting I am using as a notifier to frontpage visitors and they really like the thumbnails

if my visitors like it - it gotta be good right?

very easy to use

one thing though I could not get it to point to a section id and a category id simultaneously and display - withing the module settings I could not find this function

One could dig into it and mod it but i only need it to do what it does and it does it just right

Thanks for this developer

My enthusiasm would probably have you to think that I was asked or paid to make the following comments, but I don't even know these guys! LOL! But I've got to tell you, as a web designer, I can create some very, very advanced web layouts. And in such cases, I REALLY need something that doesn't box me into a pre-defined module wrapper. I've had to hack and customize many modules to fit the look and feel of my sites. With this one???? AN ANSWER TO PRAYER! LOL! With the JXTC Deluxe News Module (rightly named "deluxe") I have endless possibilities that are SIMPLE and EASY to use! Man! I just ran across this tonight and I'm ALREADY cooking with grease! Thank you JoomlaXTC team! Y'all rock!

Easy to install, and works well once you do the following...

The developer gives an example of the html that is easy to copy and paste into the module admin section. However, there is a bug in the example given. Images were not being shown alongside the text.

This problem was easily fixed though by deleting the slash before the {link} tag (as shown on the sample code page)

Refer fix thread.

http://www.joomlaxtc.com/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=79&func=view&id=866&catid=66

This module works really good. I've been looking for something similar for ages, and till I found this never found anything near.

Because it's version 1.0, I'm gonna tell what I would improve. If you are really bad or null at html (like I am) this will be a bit difficult to configure. You gotta follow the example that they give you in the download section and from there you gotta try some things till you get the result you want. If developers keeps working in this, it would be nice if they could substitute all the html by simple querys like: Image size, font type, etc, etc, instead of having to type all the html or css or whatever is that (sorry, as I said I know nearly nothing about css or html).

But overall, it does what it says, and I really recommend it to those who are looking for something like this.

Thank you developers, and I'll keep looking for updates!