I don't want to rate the component yet.
The component is not working in Joomla 1.5.8.

I would like to urge the authors of Jambook that more than 3 weeks ago they received a post (jambook support forum) informing tham that the component is not working (at all) in joomla 1.5.8 (with legacy plugin enabled).

I am writing about this here because there was no response to the post on their forum.

I also downloaded and installed the component but in my joomla 1.5.8 it is also not working.

Waiting for any action from Jambook crew. Maybe thay can unjam it.

I am a complete newbie to joomla and am not a computer professional at all but was able to install and get the component running in 2 minutes with easy installation and easiest configuration.

5 Stars to the developer...... Cheers.....

I have used Jambook on a couple of sites and it is a very simple and easy solution.

There's nothing fancy about it - but I don't want people leaving ridiculous HTML, smilies and other such rubbish in my guestbook, and Jambook allows you to limit entries to good, clean, old fashioned plain text - exactly what I want.

It is also useful to have the ability to moderate guestbook entries before they appear on the site, and Jambook will inform you by email when a new entry has joined the queue.

All in all, a very simple extension that even a complete novice can install and use.

No complaints here. Everything went smoothly and it works just as I was expecting. Thanks for this one.

Installed really easy and didn't have to do a thing. Have some great features that i liked

Component is rich with features - very useful ones as well. I would have kept it if it had a built-in editor with more features than just plain text. There is the option to use the joomla built-in richtext editor, but I don't want to expect my users to endure using MosCE.
A nice little editor with BBCode support and some animoticons would have been nice ...

Although the install is really easy, the customization lacks functionality. Futhermore from what I can read from the support forums, it looks like that the author (support) only replies to the question he really wants to reply to.

To customize you have to know your HTML, and at last two browser windows to easily see your results. There is no preview mode. When editing the HTML you can only save or cancel, I really miss the apply functionality here.

It is not really clear which CSS it uses, at first it looks like it uses it's own. But searching the forums it appears to be the joomla css. In some templates there are some CSS tags, but those do not seem to work for everyone. According the installation documentation there should be two templates included, but there is only one called "default"

Lastly there is no supported way of making some input values required.

In it is core it has good potential and it usable right out of the box, but if you want a little more and apply some customization I would skip this one.

Installed with no problems!
Small niggle, captcha image is hard to read but otherwise, thanks!

We got Jambook installed and configured very quickly. It does the job easily and is easy for logged in users to use. Highly recommended for being dirt simple to use and install.

Thanks for at nice and very easy to use guestbook. Only thing I miss is a Danish translation, but I might be working on that…

This thing works great and is simple to install and customize. @ Shaggycows: If you spend more than minute looking at the options, you'll see that you can turn off the wysiwyg integration. That's what I did as well.

The spam protection works very well and required no time to setup as well.

Thanks for this great tool...I REALLY appreciate it and will be making my donation! :)

I installed Jambook and found it does not provide a user-friendly interface to visitors who are unfamiliar with Joomla. A simple comment form would be much better. There is no need for a full WYSIWYG editor and all the options. I uninstalled Jambook. It would be better to have no guestbook than this complicated extension simply to take guest comments.

As far as I can tell this module has everything I need with one exception: Support for Joomla 1.5 (even in legacy mode). Any plans to add this anytime soon? I sent toe author the errors I was getting so hopefully that can expedite things. Other than that, great module!

I will gladly recommend this extension for everyone planning to set up a guestbook for their clients! It works excellent, and is using joomlas stylesheet as deafult.

But....: Its just tables tables, and tables... But you can of course edit the template and make it tableless. It should have been an official tableless template for this.

Works right out of box!
Moreover, it have internal Captcha library, so i still don't need to install monstrous Captcha engine - 1.5 mb is too much for generic shared library.

Very easy to install and use. Just upload, configure from the Joomla components menu, create a new menu item selecting "component" and it works. Very nice to use too. Thank you.
Ron

The stile and layout is not perfect some bugs as it still in beta. It should be tested on usability as well. I think it is a bit confusing to have cancel and preview buttons on the form. There is an option also to use default Joomla editor which is for me a total nonsense. So good beginning. Keep on the development.
Definitely I would not recommend this component for production sites. EasyBook is still number 1.

Worked perfectly with no tweaking. Exactly what I needed.

I had tried other guestbookcomponents, but this is really one of the best. No installation problems, easy to import messages from another component.

The fill in-system is really user friendly and you can change a lot to your message layout.

Spam protection included and you can choose to show your website and email or not.

Very nice!

This gastbook works super. Easy to configure. Just what I needed for my site