I searched high and low for something to display a list of categories with descriptions from a specific section. Something I had expected Joomla to do natively ( new to Joomla) but was wrong.

I tried EVERY other similar extension listed in the directory, but this is the one that actually worked! And worked perfectly with everything I threw at it.

It did everything I needed, and everything that the others forum questions/requests where asking for and not getting with other extensions.

tableless layouts for the blog, selection of blog or list click through choices, SEF , allowed for description tag stripping (or NOT), and even allowance for plugins ie: { } inclusions in the category description ( with the other appropriate module).

It displays to a module position which is great for a custom blog sidebar etc, or as I have used it... in conjunction with a 'module in content' module, and a little css work .. allows me to display a full page/article category navigation page for my actual site structure

Beyond this, the response from the author to questions in the forum was almost immediate, and was very helpful, even when I asked silly questions.

If you want this sort of functionality, start here.

Many many thanks.

After a lot of reading to try and get JQuery running nicely with Joomla ( and mootools.. ho hum) just to get slimbox 2 working, I came across this. I have not tested extensively, or looked to hard at all the implications, but after trawling the forums and finding a lot of stuff I didn't really understand how to implement manually (Im a JS hack at best) this got me up and running in 5 min.

Install, add the slimbox JS to my template and I was away.

Will test it with other JQuery stuff I have on non-joomla sites, but so far so good.

Thanks for saving me having to become a JS coder ( for now :)