CB My Diggs
Version
1.0
Rating
Compatibility
Votes
Favoured
3
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Views
5335
Date Added
10 May 2009
- 5 themes to choose from for their story listings.
- Whether to display Digg count on stories or not.
- Whether to show only story title or title along with description (like RSS feeds)
- And a few more.
This CB extension has been tested on Joomla 1.5.10 and CB 1.2 stable.
CHANGE LOG
-------------------- 1.1 Release [27-Jun-2009] --------------------
27-Jun-2009 SopanTech Solutions
# Moved user controls to admin back-end to give more control to admin instead of user.
Overall, this seems to be a pretty good plugin.
My only gripe is that it gives the user too much control over MY site's styles.
The user is able to select from 1 of 5 styles for the plugin's output, which means that I have to go through and handle 5 style sheets for each of these scenarios!
The user also has control of the width of the plugin's display CSS style, which means you have to specify "300px", "100%", or some valid CSS string. Most users won't get this at all, it's entirely unnecessary, and it add confusion and add frustration to their average experience.
Users can also control whether or not there's a border, and if there's a title and description, or just a title.
Knowing what I do about UI design, most users don't want these kinds of options; they become confusing noise to most. The essence of the user experience usually sounds like, "It should just work!"
I would much prefer if all the controls were on the backend, leaving the user with only an input field for their digg username.
As I said, I like this plugin and I'm definitely keeping it, but I'm hacking it to move the controls into the backend.
My only gripe is that it gives the user too much control over MY site's styles.
The user is able to select from 1 of 5 styles for the plugin's output, which means that I have to go through and handle 5 style sheets for each of these scenarios!
The user also has control of the width of the plugin's display CSS style, which means you have to specify "300px", "100%", or some valid CSS string. Most users won't get this at all, it's entirely unnecessary, and it add confusion and add frustration to their average experience.
Users can also control whether or not there's a border, and if there's a title and description, or just a title.
Knowing what I do about UI design, most users don't want these kinds of options; they become confusing noise to most. The essence of the user experience usually sounds like, "It should just work!"
I would much prefer if all the controls were on the backend, leaving the user with only an input field for their digg username.
As I said, I like this plugin and I'm definitely keeping it, but I'm hacking it to move the controls into the backend.
Owner's reply
Thanks for your review. In fact we have received similar comments about the user controls from a couple of users hence we are planning to release a new version in which all such controls will be moved in the admin back-end and user will only have the option for providing his/her Digg id.