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byDavidBoggitt, December 25, 2008
JRPassphrase
This is just what I was after... I just wanted certain individuals to be able to register on the charity site that I look after and this does the trick perfectly, with the minimum of fuss!

Thanks :)
byDavidBoggitt, December 24, 2008
Extra Vote
Hi,

I run a charity site and we wanted a simple voting system where people invovled could rate various activities. This fitted the bill perfectly!

Thanks :)

Dave.
byDavidBoggitt, December 22, 2008
J!Position
Thanks - I find this really very helpful indeed!
byDavidBoggitt, December 22, 2008
Better Preview
This is a must-install on all my sites. I know that there is much discussion about what should be 'core' functionality, but since there is already a preview in Joomla and this is much better then... well... we can always hope. The author has some other excellent extensions too... check them out.

Dave.
Owner's reply

Just released new version (1.1.0). Now you can see by the icons color if the link is changed to anything but the main site.

byDavidBoggitt, November 25, 2008
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
JCK Editor
I love FCK editor. So why only 4 stars? Because at the moment, you can't create custom user profiles with their own image/file folders, editor layouts, buttons and plugin features. But this is on the roadmap and I'll happily give FCK six stars when it's implemented.

Note: the current version of Linkr (for anyone that uses this great tool) does not work with FCK with respect to adding links to images. This is a Linkr issue that the author knows about and is fixed in the next, forthcoming release.
Owner's reply

Hi David, we would be delighted to have you give us 6 stars & give careful attention to our user‘s requests! We have had some internal discussion,it's firmly on our things to do! In fact the 'newsletters mode' evolved from a similar conversation with Acajoom team. This has materialised in the latest version 2.6.3.9 as the 1st & only editor to provide such a resolve. So hold on, we will get there! Thanks d:o)

byDavidBoggitt, November 9, 2008
Linkr
A fabulous little extension. As someone who uses FCKeditor, I wasn't sure why I would need Linkr, but it facilitates linking to menu items and I'm sure has other great features too that I've yet to discover.
byDavidBoggitt, August 26, 2008
1 of 2 people found this review helpful
JEvents
Hi,

I've just installed 1.5alpha2 on a J1.5.6 site and it didn't work. I then read the installation instructions and lo-and-behold, it seems to be working fine! I do hope development on this continues; expect a donation when my next production site is complete :)

1. Install the component as a normal Joomla 1.5 component.
2. After installation change the config to replace the admin email address
3. You must then click the following links in the 'Development' tab in the JEvents control panel in order (VERY IMPORTANT)
1. Migrate admin menus and update databases (this will make sure your tables are up to date - the sql in the xml install file is more difficult to maintain during development and is therefore out of date!)
2. Migrate All Events to IcalEvents (this will copy all your existing events into the new format, if you have any - without removing them)
4. You MUST create at least one category before doing anything else
byDavidBoggitt, August 16, 2008
Calendar Icon
Well, I'm delighted to be mentioned by Tomasz for doing some testing to sort that odd little bug out, but all credit goes to him! :)

This is a great little plugin to display a classy date next to articles.

A previous reviewer said that "it is not possible to suppress the date display for certain articles using the parameter settings of the article." This isn't really true: you CAN select within the plugin parameters which sections/categories you want to display the date on. So, since I'm only doing this for my 'News' section, it was very easy to implement.

I would like to see some more styles for the date (Roman numerals perhaps and maybe others), but it's still great :)
byDavidBoggitt, August 10, 2008
masscontent
Just a huge time saver that I'm sure we'll come to not be able to live without!

Thanks so much Johann! :-)
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
0 of 1 people found this review helpful
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
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
JCal Pro
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
Googlemaps Plugin
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
EMSlideShow
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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