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byOorzaak, May 10, 2012
BK-MultiThumb
Like some other reviewers I've spent some time checking out several extensions for the job. Most important to me was the ability to put up my settings in the back end so users can upload their image without thinking and have it displayed neatly. Many extensions did not meet this requirement as they are based on in-line codes between curly brackets. This may work for a seasoned web author but not for my average front end user.

BK_Multithumb gives the site admin an overwhelming amount of parameters to set, and the user can upload whatever picture he likes - it is taken care of. Very good job, just what I needed.

Now I must admit I did not have the time yet to test this extension thoroughly. Also, I've used it on a J1.5 site only so far. That is the reason why I rated it 'Good'. But the concept is excellent and I have not experienced any issues.

Frits
byOorzaak, February 2, 2012
Akeeba Backup
What more can I say after hundreds of positive reviews? They are absolutely right! I just set up a procedure for creating test-and-development copies of my sites. Took some tinkering with server side settings for file access rights - not an Akeeba issue but with solved with advice from Nicholas. Just brilliant, that is!
byOorzaak, October 12, 2011
Automatically Generated Menu
I think something like this should be incorporated in the Joomla core! I found only one drawback so far: I could not install two or more instances of this module on the same page.
byOorzaak, September 30, 2011
Tooltips
I use this extension to add tooltips to menu items. Which turned out to be a special request: because of the limitations of the menu title fields I needed to create a setup with both Tooltips and ReReplace, also by NoNomber.

It took some time & I needed to ask a few questions before it worked. Once again this showed that support is just as important, if not more important than the extension itself. Peter keeps up his high standards on both.
byOorzaak, July 8, 2011
MultiTwitter
I was looking for a Twitter display module which can handle a more complex search, rather than just displaying the Tweets of @so-and-so. Well this one can. It's a pity I had to try and compare so many modules before I found this one. But that's not your fault ;-) Please keep up the good work. Maybe you can add some auto refresh and/or rotating to it in the future?
byOorzaak, April 8, 2011
ARI Image Slider
I tried a dozen of image sliders. Every one of them had some nice features to it... and none of them did exactly what I wanted. Or, when they did, they turned out to be buggy. Except for ARI Image Slider. But this is only where the story starts.

I tried Image Slider on a Joomla! 1.5 test site using the obvious Milkyway template. Everything went ok and, as I said, the module was exactly what I was looking for. Then I installed the module on my live site which has a home made template, and I was in trouble. ARI Soft helped me out and, on the fly, gave me some advice for improving my css.

You guys are great, thanx a lot!

Frits
byOorzaak, March 14, 2011
JPlayer
... but please, put in very bold letters the fact that YOU SHOULDN'T TYPE THE FILE EXTENSION, e.g. .flv, for locally stored video files. It cost me about an hour of frustration before I found out this was the only problem preventing my video from being played. I already checked the MIME types of my server and everything. Please!
byOorzaak, March 9, 2011
ARI YUI Menu
I really like to do a lot of templating and css styling myself. However I had a real pain trying to make a drop down menu working in IE7. So I turned to this ARI YUI Menu extension. It didn't work right away either, but after I posted a question in their forum I got an answer very quickly and it solved my problem. So 10 out of 10 for service.

Maybe we could use a bit more of documentation for the css classes which are used in this component. So my overall rating is Good, not Excellent. When it comes to service, I'd say Excellent without any doubt.

Frits
byOorzaak, February 23, 2011
I want to use this indexer in combination with a Joomla component of my own. Development is not finished yet, so I cannot give a final conclusion. What I can say however, is that it indexed about 3500 pdf's (!), many of which have 20+ pages, like a breeze. And support is good, which in my opinion is a very important factor when choosing an extension. Please keep up the good work!

Frits
byOorzaak, November 22, 2010
Blue Flame Forms For Joomla 2.5
Haven't even tried bfForms yet. Someone whom I trust recommanded it to me, so I bought it... and encountered an installation problem. Support was very very quick and to the point.

For your information: it turned out that bfForms installed an instance of jQuery alongside the instance I installed myself. Both instances had a conflict.
byOorzaak, November 10, 2010
Alternative Readmore link
Doesn't work at all on my site, and no response when I mailed the author.
Owner's reply

I have not receive any e-mail from you?

byOorzaak, September 14, 2010
RS-Catchy
Does the job like it should do: easy to install, works just fine.
Initially I had a problem though, and I contacted the RSWebsols support. They responded very quickly, and within a few hours I received a new version in which the bug was fixed.
To me personally a good support is the most important factor for choosing an extension. Thank you, guys!
byOorzaak, February 16, 2010
Ozio Gallery
I installed this extension and chose the accordion skin. It worked, though it needed a lot of tweaking. Titles appeared outside the image area, the accordion segments were of different dimensions, it was unclear how to change titles & links, etcetera.

Some of these settings I found in an xml file - which is not very user friendly, especially when creating a site for a customer. Some other issues seemed to be solved by creating new images with set dimensions - which is the wrong way around in my opinion.

It is very well possible that these issues can be solved in much better ways, but - and this is my most important point - there is no documentation. I did find a forum in italian, with some english topics in it, but many topics were not answered after months.

I'm sorry but I have no other conclusion: a great idea but totally useless for serious users.

Frits