DavidBoggitt

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byDavidBoggitt, June 7, 2008
YOOaccordion
Hi,

I really like the YOOtheme products - they're all really good looking and add some great functionality easily. I first used YOOtooltip - brilliant - and now am trying to get YOOaccordion on the same site.

The problem is, that these particular extensions can be styled black (they are white by default) by adding a line to your template index.php (I'm using a non-YOOtemplate) but this turns them ALL black. So, I've got a great looking YOOaccordion but the black YOOtooltip looks terrible on a dark background!

It does seem odd that it's "all or nothing" and I hope they consider individual colouring on the various modules as this really does restrict their use.
byDavidBoggitt, May 31, 2008
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YOOtooltip
Great little plugin - works pretty much out of the box - you just have to add a line to your template if you don't use a YOOtheme template. Interesting business model they use: having to join and then having access to all the extension/templates. But there's no doubting the quality of their work - very good indeed - and quick with support too.

Dave.
byDavidBoggitt, April 17, 2008
XTypo Plugin
It really is great for someone such as myself with limited CSS knowledge - if you're happy enough to configure it's features then it'll do a great job for you!

Two points: there are differences between IE7 and FF2, but that's life! Also, I would like to be able to configure the text size for the xtypo_quotes, is that possible and if not, is there any reason why this cannot be implemented?
byDavidBoggitt, April 12, 2008
2J News Slider
... didn't work with JWTabs&Slides.

But the author was brilliant with his support - quick and helpful - and we've established that it's an Ajax clash and that when 2Joomla release their upcoming AjaxTabs extension those two should work together perfectly.

Thanks for a great extension which looks fab and is easy to install and understand.
byDavidBoggitt, April 6, 2008
Tab News
I had a few problems to begin with (mine, not the extensions), mainly as I wasn't linking images to articles in the content and not using {mosimage} in the introtext. But once I'd played about with it, it looks great! I've got five tabs - one for each category in our news section and it really does the business for me! This is a local J1.0.15 and I'm hoping it's now working fine for J1.5.x because that's what we'll most likely use in the actual development. Emails to the author bounced back though - I wonder if that's been fixed now?! Anyway - thanks for a great component.
byDavidBoggitt, February 14, 2008
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JCal Pro (event calendar for Joomla)
I finally got this going... after a few problems and lots of scanning of the forums... what I had was a common problem and a 'sticky' could easily have been created! The problem was that any users could add/delete events from the frontend (i.e. the Authority system wasn't working). JCal Pro has been fine on some servers (most, I suspect) and not on others, but I'm not sure if a fix is released. But their suggestion (found in a forum post) worked.

Some documentation would have been appreciated - once you've read the forums and got it going, well, yes, hindsight it s wonderful thing and it's straightforward enough. But a few simple instructions aren't too hard to write.

Still - once going - it's great!
Owner's reply

Thanks for the note. Documentation is available here (and has been for some time).

http://dev.anything-digital.com/JCal-Client/Documentation.html

byDavidBoggitt, February 10, 2008
Plugin Googlemaps
Really cool and really simple to install and just does exactly what you would want. I've not yet tried any of the more advanced functionality (doing routes), but for a basic Google map on your webpage, it's perfect!

Don't make the mistake I did: copying and pasting the lat/lon coordinates into JCE put some HTML tags in there too and I didn't realise until I checked the HTML...



is a good website for getting lat/lon coordinates.

Thanks for this extension :-)
byDavidBoggitt, February 9, 2008
EM Slide Show - Joomla AJAX slideshow
Does exactly what it says on the tin! There is a post below somewhere that said it didn't create the thumbnails, but I've not had that problem at all!

It's sensible to put your images into categories and then refer to them using the category ID (a number!) which caught me out for a while. But the support is excellent and we got it going extremely quickly!
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