Nikijacob

Reviews(19)
 
byNikijacob, August 7, 2009
SimpleCaddy
this is the most useless shopping cart ever.. you cant add categories, even though it says you can.. u cant add HTMl descriptions, matter of fact the name of the item-is apparently the description. It has four choices in the main control panel. thats it. It does nothing. if u have 2 products...i still wouldnt buy this. I only have 9 and Im going with Virtue Mart just because I can add stuff without beng confused or dissapointed easily...even if I dont need everything for just 9 products.
Owner's reply

Apparently you have missed the point, everywhere. SimpleCaddy is free, no need to buy it. Your descriptions are in your content, not in the product names. Four choices in the main control panel are currently more than enough for what the component does, more are being added for extended features. If it does nothing, then I suppose you haven't taken a look at it more closely than installing, looking and discarding it. If you are happy with Virtuemart, by all means! Although your previous comment on Virtuemart makes me wonder...
Your comment of December, 17, 2008 on Virtuemart :
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I have been trying to use this on several sites for weeks now and everytime I manual install or automatic all's I get after installing everything is a blankwebsite and the backend the component is blank as well.

I'm not sure how it made Editors Pick. If you check out the forum they never answer anyone's support question
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Let me state that VirtueMart is also an excellent product, but not for the same users/public as SimpleCaddy.

byNikijacob, May 29, 2009
RokDownloads
I have tried every component there is for downloads and RokDownloads is by far the BEST. Not too much, not too little and it works with MENU items.. single files or folders.. It look nice too. and the best is how easy it is to simply upload a file and go into the manager and publish it.

Not containers, not groups... just downloads!
byNikijacob, May 13, 2009
Remository
I am very shocked that Joomla does not ahve a good donwload component, there is something wrong with everyone. This one works the best for me - but..again I say but. I need to upload alot of files to transfer from DOCMAN. The ADD FILES ALREADY ON SERVER does not work..it adds nothing or only adds the folders and not the PDFs
Owner's reply

Thank you for the grudging praise. But the central comment here is simply wrong. I have just used "Add Files Already on Server" to add all the .jpg files from the Joomla /images directory structure. The results are visible in "Selected Images" folder at http://j15.joomlaguru.net. The operation ran flawlessly, using the current release of Remository, and took a few seconds. There is an extensive FAQ on this topic at http://remository.com/faq/remository-general/add-files-already-on-the-server/. I hope you will consider revising your review.

byNikijacob, May 11, 2009
RSS Feed Creator by foobla
I bought RSS Factory thinking it would be good.. they are two different products techbnically, but this one does so much more, along with Slick RSS and Im set. I lost money with RSS Factory, but the look and feel of this, frontend and backend is worth the money.
byNikijacob, May 11, 2009
Slick RSS
This is actually better then the whole RSS FACTORY component.
byNikijacob, April 22, 2009
Quick Jump Menu - Drop Down Menu
I have over 30 menus in my site and my main menu is made up of menu links to the top of each separate menu. the quick jump does a 404 for every menu link item, but works on articles only. Very poor figuring. This shouldn't matter what the link is or where it goes.
byNikijacob, March 27, 2009
JoomGallery
Ohh my god, I needed something fast, quick does and says everything I need. Its awesome. It does so much more then the others I dont know why this isnt higher up on the list.
byNikijacob, March 13, 2009
Phoca Download
I love the phoca products and am starting to switch over to them. But for the download manager, the one thing that keeps me with Docman is the fact that you can multiple add files with another components. You can add multiple files with Phoca Gallery, why cant we get that for the Phoca Download. Otherwise...Id switch.

PS you can only link to Sections, not categories.
Owner's reply

Hi,

"You can add multiple files with Phoca Gallery, why cant we get that for the Phoca Download"

- This is a time issue, as I wrote here many times :-(, I do all the extensions and all the user guides in my freetime and I give help and answer all the questions in forum and per e-mail in my freetime too. I am not able to produce all the features at once :-( ... Phoca Extensions need help (e.g. answering posts in the forum will be very appreciated).

"PS you can only link to Sections, not categories" ... this is the Itemid issue. See Phoca Forum ( http://www.phoca.cz/forum ) and Phoca Documentation site ( http://www.phoca.cz/documentation ) to get answer about this issue. Creating menu links to other Phoca Download parts is very easy (e.g. to Categories, Files) but what is not easy, is to coordinate Itemids of these created menu links if users are using SEF in Joomla! because links rendered in every Joomla! component get no information about which Itemid they should use. So if there is a link in some component, the link has no information about the Itemid (and in fact it cannot get it from database too, becasue there can be more entries, etc, e.g.)

byNikijacob, March 11, 2009
CQI - CustomQuickIcons
I set a item to administrator thinking that admin and super admin would see it, but no dice, only the admin see it. ODD since Joomla doesnt work this way usually. If anyone else knows what Im doing wrong let me know.

Otherwise this is a excellent component, I install it on every site for the managers running things.
Owner's reply

In the actual release you can define this easily with the module parameters.

byNikijacob, February 2, 2009
Simple Font Resizer
Its works, but changes the font of th whole website and doesnt change back. Plus when you do make thigns smaller or larger. The template a css rockettheme one doesnt move.. so with the smaller font you have a gigantic space between modules.
byNikijacob, December 17, 2008
VirtueMart
I have been trying to use this on several sites for weeks now and everytime I manual install or automatic all's I get after installing everything is a blankwebsite and the backend the component is blank as well.

I'm not sure how it made Editors Pick. If you check out the forum they never answer anyone's support question.
byNikijacob, October 9, 2008
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
TODO list by foobla
I loved the HP module, but with 1.5 nothing was around. This is exactly the same! Thanks Everything else doenst compare.
Owner's reply

In this 1.5 version, you can easier to install module, just install ==> publish ===> and use. this is small and good improve.

byNikijacob, May 16, 2008
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Expose Flash Gallery
This is by far my favorite component, but I need to be able to have parameters set to show certain gallerys, not using a URL. I need to maintain a left hand side menu at all times.

Hopefully this is incorporated into the next version out! I would switch back instantly!
byNikijacob, April 24, 2008
Webamoeba Ticket System
the frontend is very busy, sloppy and all runs together. It also needs to be able to have files to be uploaded. And it pops up all kinds of stuff, like organization, user, admin... who needs that. Its too sloppy. I uninstalled and I will keep looking.
byNikijacob, April 11, 2008
SOBI 2
I love this component, would like to see it be able to have a link to a category like most other components do. This way active menus work better. Hopefully in the next phase!
byNikijacob, April 11, 2008
1 of 2 people found this review helpful
DOCman
I love this whole component, but the support is nill! I have a gigantic space in between my files and my nav bar and when i went to the site for Support as it says too. There must be 50+ forum messages never replied to from last year. My site looks stupid with the component because of this and I cant figure out which page makes the extra spacing.
byNikijacob, January 23, 2008
Mass Content
I wish it could add Intro and Main sections, and even Overide the creation date. I am working on the ARCHIVE section of our site and the dates are all old.

Also, when copying and pasteing text into you must use HTML tags, this I didnt know until I saw my articles look all jumbled.

After I inserted for all the paragraphs as I pasted the text, then it looks great. But I do love the thought of the whole coponent.. I ahve a ton more archives.. wish a newer version would be coming out soon with at least the change creation date.
byNikijacob, December 5, 2007
AdsManager: Classified Ads
I love this tool! The only thing is I didnt like the way the ads looked, all the text was centered. I did alot of modification to the look of it.

Suggestions: I had to rework the module and the component to not show the Category (should be a on/off feature). Category Images (on/off feature) as well. And when I tried to add more fields to a ad, only 2 showed, no more. Also You should be able to configure the ads more.. I had to change all of mine to be left aligned.

But what I love is the ease to work with it. And it does move smoothly. And its easy to modify. What I am afraid of it when it comes time to upgrade I have alot of changes.
byNikijacob, November 12, 2007
AllVideos
It works great but what i dont like is the code shows in some of my articles. Which is weird, because it doesnt all of the time.

Example:2005 House of Charity - Bishops Annual Appeal Video Watch the 2005 House of Charity - Bishops Annual Appeal Video -4369978946334751695

But it works fine, It just looks stupid. Any suggestions on how to make it not show up. Exact code on all pages, just some show up and some dont.