AJAX Scroller
Version
2.3 (last update on Mar 15, 2012)
Rating
Compatibility
Votes
Favoured
44
License
GPLv2 or later
Commercial
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117235
Date Added
15 December 2008
AJAX Scroller is a Web 2.0 module for Joomla! that displays and scrolls your site's Articles, Banners, RSS feeds, Twitter updates, Virtuemart products or other items which are loaded dinamically using different animation effects.
It can be used to present newsflashes, testimonials, latest news, banners, remote RSS feeds, Twitter updates, web-shop products or any other content with autoplay or manual scrolling. It's highly optimized, smart and smooth.
AJAX Scroller module for Joomla is highly optimized, hundreds of articles can be displayed and scrolled without any additional load on your website. It uses AJAX technology to pre-load the next article in advance so it's ready for scroll without delay. Once all items are fetched the remote requests stop while scrolling can continue. The whole process is performed without page refresh, quickly, smoothly and user friendly.
You can even duplicate the module and show different slideshows on same page. It can be configured to display several articles at once and remember the last viewed item on page refresh. AJAX Scroller is simple to install and use but powerful in terms of configurations.
AJAX Scroller key features:
• AJAX technology, making the module very quick and user friendly
• Highly optimized, pre-loading articles in advance
• Stops remote requests when all elements are fetched
• Can display unlimited number of articles without affecting the page load
• Can display and scroll several articles at a time
• Remembers the last viewed article and starts there on page refresh
• In addition to Articles, it can display Banners, remote RSS feeds, Twitter updates and Virtuemart products
• User and friends timeline, mentions, lists and keyword search support for Twitter
• Vertical, horizontal scroll and fade switch
• Appealing visual animation slide effects including linear, expo, bounce, back, elastic
• Select displayed articles by category, multiple categories or frontpage state
• Different ordering options including random order
• Can display article images, parsing image mambots
• Optional title and read more link to the article
• Can display only intro, full text or both, limit the text length
• Navigation next/prev buttons, play/pause button and loading image
• Auto play with customizable pause time
• Strong styling possibilities, uses CSS to customize the appearance
• Possibility to display module within article content using loadposition plugin/mambot
• Possibility to display multiple instances on the same page, with individual styling
• Compatible with 3rd party plugins to open links in a lightbox rather than in a new window
• Joomla! 2.5, 1.7, 1.6, 1.5 native (no legacy mode required) and 1.0 compatible
• Uses Mootools only, framework already loaded in Joomla, no jQuery or any other additional frameworks required
• Supports Joomfish
• Works with all major browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome
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I am professional designer and developer, and I was building web site for a client when I discovered AJAX Scroller. I was so amazed by its flexibility, robustness and ease of use that I replaced two commercial and two free extensions, just on this particular site, with this wonderful module.
And what is particularly interesting - nobody can tell I used only AJAX scroller; I used it to display Virtuemart products, RSS feed, main slideshow images and latest tweets, all with different styles and effects. Incredible!
Those who are more technically oriented will specially appreciate the fact it uses Mootools, same library that Joomla uses, so it will not load JQuery like some other extensions do, thus making site faster.
One more thing that speaks in favor of this extension - it only costs few bucks, really worth the money. If there were 10 stars I would give 15 :) I am really ashamed I have not found it earlier!
And what is particularly interesting - nobody can tell I used only AJAX scroller; I used it to display Virtuemart products, RSS feed, main slideshow images and latest tweets, all with different styles and effects. Incredible!
Those who are more technically oriented will specially appreciate the fact it uses Mootools, same library that Joomla uses, so it will not load JQuery like some other extensions do, thus making site faster.
One more thing that speaks in favor of this extension - it only costs few bucks, really worth the money. If there were 10 stars I would give 15 :) I am really ashamed I have not found it earlier!
I wanted a twitter scroller at our site, and tried a number and they were not able to extract the twitter information or do it reliably. The Ajax Scroller reads the twitter RSS and has been working well since installation. The developer also helped me through some initial difficulties with the cache setup to keep Twitter from rejecting me.
Great tool and great service. I bought this and asked for an extra scroller. Besides the scroller I got excellent explanation how to change-, implement new and create a new scroler myslef. Quick feed back and good service, also for people which are not so familiar with Joomla. I also got help when I suffered antoher problem.
Excellent module!
At the beginning I had some problem with the scroller, but that was because the conflict between MooTools and jQuery.
The AJAX Scroller has nothing to do with it.
AJAx Scroller is just perfect. Works like a charm and it's very easy to use. Just do what it says. I use it on my website for scrolling news.
You just need to tweak the CSS to make it look your suitable way. If you don't know how to work with CSS, you can ask for support and they can style your CSS (paid option!). Btw, the support is just great. Quick response too.
Keep on the good thing :)
At the beginning I had some problem with the scroller, but that was because the conflict between MooTools and jQuery.
The AJAX Scroller has nothing to do with it.
AJAx Scroller is just perfect. Works like a charm and it's very easy to use. Just do what it says. I use it on my website for scrolling news.
You just need to tweak the CSS to make it look your suitable way. If you don't know how to work with CSS, you can ask for support and they can style your CSS (paid option!). Btw, the support is just great. Quick response too.
Keep on the good thing :)
Doesn't work ... like they say, there is a bug : "Only the first article is loaded in my scroller" ... but they don't find a solution. So, for the price, are you ready to try to lose your money ? Ok, when you make a good job to pay a module, but in this case, no !!! Very poor
Owner's reply
It does work which hundreds of its users can witness about. I offered you support but you refused claiming it just doesn't work. If you have any issue on your site I am more than willing to have a look and fix it.
This was very easy to use. It installed without a problem. Using the two pages of example configurations that the developers provided, it was easy for me to make decisions about my own parameter selections. I looked around for an extension that would show the headline and a bit of text from all of the articles from one section of my Joomla site, and AJAX Scroller has done this perfectly. I checked out a lot of free options, and couldn't find one that did what AJAX Scroller can do. (I wanted a vertical display, vertical scroll, and this was perfect.)
The module is perfect if you have little area on your pages.
You can customize many parameters even if you are NOT a programmer.
VERY GOOD support from the Author: just ask and the answer will arrive very fast,
I hope that there will be new versions with more features in the future.
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You can customize many parameters even if you are NOT a programmer.
VERY GOOD support from the Author: just ask and the answer will arrive very fast,
I hope that there will be new versions with more features in the future.
ettore
I liked this extension enough to register and leave a comment. For $12.99 (USD) you can't go wrong.
It installed and worked out of the box.
The default styles are easily editable in the style.css and I love how you can simple have a module specific CSS file by naming your file style.css. Great feature!
I was able to install, configure and style this to exactly meet my needs in a couple of hours.
I love the ajax loading, which is clean and fast and doesn't stack articles on initial display like some other modules I've tried (YooTheme Carousel for one).
Help page is adequate. Would be nice to have some height & width attributes configurable via the admin, but they're easy enough to find and edit in the css file.
Looking forward to playing around with this module some more.
Nice job!
It installed and worked out of the box.
The default styles are easily editable in the style.css and I love how you can simple have a module specific CSS file by naming your file style.css. Great feature!
I was able to install, configure and style this to exactly meet my needs in a couple of hours.
I love the ajax loading, which is clean and fast and doesn't stack articles on initial display like some other modules I've tried (YooTheme Carousel for one).
Help page is adequate. Would be nice to have some height & width attributes configurable via the admin, but they're easy enough to find and edit in the css file.
Looking forward to playing around with this module some more.
Nice job!
Worked straight away, unlike others I tried. Still learning some of the finer tweeks.Excellent support. Thanks for a good extension.
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