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Messaging

Extremely Simple

byKarn Edge, May 6, 2008

4 of 4 people found this review helpful

I mean it works very well and fast. I'm terrible myself at creating good designs so I do wish it came with a default template to it. It's definitely very simple even in it's "look" but I won't count off for the fact that it works beautifully. I like the way it looks up users with ease and recognizes comma delimited usernames! I highly recommend this if you're looking for a very simple solution for messaging on your site. A note to the author: you should set it up to use templates and this thing will be phenomenal! I can only imagine what people could make this design look like...

Owner's reply

Thanks!

I'll try to add those templates as soon as I can. My main priority was to make the interface usable, but it's a good idea to let users make their own templates.

Mini FrontPage

Holy Wow!

byKarn Edge, May 5, 2008

This is a great module! Spices up a site in seconds! Only real problem is that it inserts the tag to the stylesheet in the body of the template where the module is located. So it makes that page not XHTML compliant due to the link tag not being in the head section. This module is fairly flexible but you cannot change the author/date part without hard coding. According to others, it seems it does not process normal HTML tags in the intro text. Oh and you cannot have more 1 mini-frontpage modules on the same page. Other than that it is a very awesome install, place and go module that will really make your articles stand out better.

gigCalendar

Very Promising

byKarn Edge, July 20, 2006

0 of 1 people found this review helpful

I wouldn't say this is an "Editor's Pick" just because it can't really be used for anything else other than band shows and what not. If there was a "repeat event" option for gigs I could turn it into an ideal DJ Schedule for our Radio station. I'm getting sick of extCal but this doesn't help unfortunately.

It's probably a very good choice for those who do need to manage the scheduling for bands and one time only events. Other than manually entering all dates afterwards.

Owner's reply

I'm sorry that gigCalendar didn't work for your application. There are a number of sites that have been posted here at the Extensions Directory and in our own forums at gigcalendar.net of people using gigCalendar for non-musical events. Check out the forum:
http://gigcalendar.net/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=76&board=6.0

At any rate, our initial reason for creating gigCalendar was as an aid for bands and artists. Along the way it seemed so easy to allow full control over the display of the generated pages that it became obvious it could be used for all kinds of sites!

Creating features like multi-date and multi-band gigs is obviously on our ToDo list. We fight the same things that most small projects do: time. Keep an eye out for a new beta version to be released soon that addresses a number of bug fixes and some small feature upgrades.

Thanks again for your review.

AJAX Shoutbox

Love This Thing!

byKarn Edge, June 9, 2006

Install was very simple and straight forward. I read all the reviews and saw alot of similar things I thought of as well for improvement.

* Settings in admin needs to be cleaner.
* Maybe a button of some sort to turn on/off a "chime" for new messages.

And, my two biggest issues are these:
* If you reload the page entirely, you see the last 10 messages. Which is fine; however, I wish that I could either set a fixed height (vert scrollbar when necessary) and/or set how many messages will stay on the page without reloading. I don't like how it continues to grow and grow until you reload the whole page. (Sorry, I tried setting the 'height' in the css file, but it never seemed to care about that).
* My other big issue for improvement is color coding "Guests" (who put in their own name so they could pretend to be another user) from "Registered" users. Like Blue for registered and green for guests. That'd be a nice add; that or have a prefix added to their name.

However all in all, this is a great mod/com!

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