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byWiZeGuY, December 18, 2011
Flexi Tweet
I've never used a module for a twitter feed before, and there seems to be many, but I liked the reviews here, and lo and behold, no exaggeration, it installs and after some quick, intuitive configurations, up and running in minutes.
Overjoyed with this one.
mh Teamspeak 3 Web Viewer
I suppose I could have used some generic script in a Custom HTML module, but I'm not sure how that would work. I am new to installing a TS3 server so I had to add things like 'ServerQuery' to my vocabulary.
Based on my experience with open source software in general, setup for this module is about par for the course. I probably could have setup quicker asking for support that seems readily available, but I learn more from thinking things through myself, and by using this extension, I learned more about TS3 admin, so I am pretty happy and appreciative here.
byWiZeGuY, April 1, 2011
Craigslistrss
The tutorial that this module is based on is still available on the web, and between that tutorial and this work that has been done already, I have been able to tweek and customize a few things, like the city that is detected for your isp is not always the subdomain for craigslist.org as in my case so it defaulted to something else so I just hacked it myself in the helper.php file. Also timestamps from get_date() I changed to get_date( $date_format = 'D, M j, g:i a' ) for my preference, and also added the line near the top of the file: date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles'); for my timezone.
Overall it is simple enough code so that a php newbie like me can reference and search out a few things and have some success with a needed feature for a project while learning a little.
I appreciate modules like this being shared.
Owner's reply

Thank you using the module. I have uploaded a new version with the date format option along with some other features.

byWiZeGuY, July 20, 2010
Horizon Slim
I was using redevo_k2news template and had major javascript errors, but I liked the accordion which was proprietary for that template. I had to get a new template and used this to reproduce the exact accordion style and effect (with a couple style improvements!)
HTML and CSS knowledge goes a long way here and there are systems in place to help make sure you have cross-browser compatible and valid markup.
For those with little coding knowledge, there are some examples you can follow and maybe learn a little coding along the way.
Usually more features means more complex, and this module is feature rich.
Thank you for not using any javascript frameworks and thereby preventing conflicts like the ones I had with that particular project.
Jan, you are an asset to the community.
byWiZeGuY, March 6, 2010
mh Fading Content from Category
I would encourage anyone to try this, it is simple like it states and doesn't take long to give it a test drive.
I would also encourage more development as its basically a slide-show and there are many other fine extensions that are better because they give more control to the visitor to pause and navigate the contents.
It is good for SEO reasons because all the content appears in the source code at once. While looking at that, though, I thought the comments in between the head tags were a little much.
The area position feature uses absolute positioning which could give surprises depending on the template if used. Also, the class suffix just creates a new class and not a suffix, so be prepared to roll up your sleeves to use this in a production site.
Overall, I get the feeling this is still in beta but something like this is actually fun to play with because the hardest part is done for you to get the effects. You just need to know your stuff to tweak it for your purpose, or you might be lucky this is just what you need the way it is.
byWiZeGuY, January 9, 2009
Recommend Friends (old)
I got the 20,000th download from the author's site! 19,999 others before me can't be wrong!
byWiZeGuY, November 5, 2008
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
All Weblinks
I started looking at the core files of the web links component to display my links better. Not necessary with this plugin. The fact that css is put into control for displaying the links makes this one of the most scalable plugins for one of the less configurable components that comes with J! core.