This does exactly what it says right out of the box and looks and works great on the front end. After enabling the plug-in, activating it is as easy as grabbing the corner of an image (on the back-end) and resizing it slightly. That's all there is to it!

I did a page load comparison without the plug-in, and with each of the 3 choices of pop-up boxes. Assuming a 56k connection, enabling slimbox added 2 more seconds, and Joomla modal added 5 more seconds. However enabling Highslide added 19 seconds to the page load time. (Highslide only added 3 seconds of load time for a T1 connection).

Although different web pages will vary in these results, this comparison should help you when making those all important decisions between aesthetics and load times.

This is one of those great products which should satisfy the needs of both the experienced and novice Joomla user.

This is very simple to install and use and the basics work out of the box. However, there are a few caveats.

If you want to use a colon in your text you will need to modify a file because it uses the colon as the separator, but that's pretty easy to do and instructions are provided in the forum.

Also like the last reviewer observed, no background box shows up around the hover text so you get floating text with your background text showing through. The forums have others with this problem but 2 months ago the developer promised to fix this in a future release.

Pros:
Easy installation and setup
With editor button plug-in, easy to include in content.
Works with Tiny MCE editor.
Did not encounter any errors.

Cons:
Does not work with FCK Editor or X-Standard Lite.
Pop-up not only includes the scripture, but advertising, web-links, html codes for webmasters, their blogs, and quite a bit more. I was very disappointed in the crowded display of the pop-up window. It looks like I'm linking to another website instead of focusing on the linked scripture.

This has to be one of the most highly configurable extensions I've ever seen. At first the huge number of options may seem overwhelming, but if you want to do it "your way", the developer seems to have found a way for you to accomplish it without ever leaving the back-end. No searching for files to edit! You do need to spend some time on the site going over the tutorials and FAQs, but when you are done you will have exactly what you want. Every aspect is highly documented on the back-end to make customization as easy as possible. On top of all of this, excellent support is provided in the forum. It is hard to believe that this component (and support) is free. The only thing left on my wish list is SEF support.

I had this working on the front-end easily and painlessly. When I ran into a problem with Google accepting my map, I asked about it on the forum and received an answer within a few hours. The admin even looked at my site again the next day to be sure that my problem had been solved.

The problem was with my hosting company, not with this product, yet I was still treated to first class support. I highly recommend this to anyone who needs to submit a map of their Seyret videos to the search engines.

I've tested almost every free audio extension available on Joomla Extensions, trying to find one that is easy to set up and more importantly easy to maintain. After quite a bit of frustration, I tried Simple MP3 player and was amazed at its simplicity. But don't let the name fool you. Although simple to install and use, it gives far more customizing options than other players I've tried. Although most of the website is in German, the Joomla back end is very well documented in English. Everything is handled on the back end without having to ever update an xml file, a definite plus.

It's true that it is somewhat difficult to get the exact color scheme you want because it doesn't give you a skin to choose from. Rather, you get to customize every bit of the player from the text and background colors to the color gradients used to highlight the player, even allowing you to add your own graphic. This can be a little daunting for those of us without artistic talents, but the end results are worth the effort.

The player also has different configurations to choose, from a simple background loop to a fully configurable player with user controls and menu options.

Someone earlier mentioned that the "?" button shows the word "Inconnu" instead of the playing song. Actually, it shows that word if no song is playing, but once the track starts, clicking the "?" does show the name of the song.

This is only one of 2 players that I was able to set up and run without having to search the site and forums for installation and use instructions.

While this extension appears to have much potential, it is not easy to get it up and running because it isn't as simple as using the Joomla installer. The online documentation is good, but when I couldn't get it to work I found this wiki which helped me to understand why:
http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/Help:Contents

I recommend that you read through this wiki before you download to see if you have enough knowledge to complete the install. Zina also uses .htaccess, so you should be familiar with what that is and how to configure and use it properly.

The high quality of this extension makes itself obvious the moment it is installed. Extensive documentation, meticulously organized in easy to digest segments, is available right on your back end! This makes the plethora of customizable options easy to understand and implement. At first the enormous amount of changeable parameters may seem overwhelming, but defaults are set so that you can be up and running quickly. Additionally, it includes a way of collecting money from your site without the added expense of additional plug-ins, which is perfect for a website that is just getting off the ground.

If all this wasn't enough, just take a look at the additional information available on their site. The website is so well designed and organized that I am planning on using it as an example of the "perfect website" for my students.

The only item on my wish list is to be able to place the currency symbol to the left of the price. Instead of $4.50 I have to use 4.50$. There may be a way to accomplish this that I have not yet discovered as it allows you to customize not only the templates, but the registry as well.

After seeing the amount of effort that was put into this free product, including excellent working demos and support, I would not hesitate to buy the other products this developer has to offer. In fact there are at least 2 items there that I will be back to purchase.

1. On Google Webmaster Tools page, choose Meta Tag for verification type.
2. ONLY enter the numbers and letters between the "" (including = sign)into the plug-in.
3. Enable Plug-in. Save.
4. Click Verify on Google Webmaster tools. Verified and done!

I included these instructions because the link to the documentation has a problem. Once I figured out exactly what I needed to enter into the plug-in, it was fast and painless!