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bybaijianpeng, June 19, 2011
JV Slideshow
When I test this module, it works fine in the "auto fetch image from folder" method, but can't work if you choose "manual input" method. Then I submited my issue to the author via his ticket (why not a forum?) system, but it seems that he can not fix this, even in the latest version.

Well, the first method works fine so I give 4 stars here. Hope the author will improve it better.

Thanks.
Owner's reply

Here for "manual input": http://www.imageupload.org/getfile.php?id=66431&a=7ccec360821eb100a98d8bf653b788ed&t=4dfdc346&o=A569068EC280587EA80B5462D9255B823021670DDDDC216AC8DCDDF5487D013055A4690392&n=jv-slideshow.jpg&i=1

bybaijianpeng, April 6, 2011
FL Slideshow
When published, this module only output some codes, no slideshow at all!

Another confusion is, it can't even create its own subfolder in the Joomla /images directory. Since it does not allow user to manually enter the path but select from a list, then , the list is always empty because there is not such a path!

The author claimed that v1.1 can show text and titles, but where can user add those texts? There is no such a field!

In short, this is a pre-mature module, don't waste your time downloading and testing it.
Owner's reply

Hello. Thank you for your interest in this module. I would appreciate attempting to contact us directly about any support issues at info@finelinewebsites.com.

As for the images/fl_slideshow directory not being created. I found an issue that caused it to not be created in certain circumstances. You can re-download the file from our website for the updated version.

As for the captions and urls, can you review the documentation? We have provided instructions on how to set these up.

Thanks again and let me know if you have any further questions using this module.

Regards,
Steve Robison
Fine Line Websites

bybaijianpeng, April 5, 2011
Modal Messages
I had been looking for such a plugin for a long time, because I think the default Joomla system message showing method is very bad, many times, visitors will not notice that message.

Now this plugin uses a modal pop-up to force the visitor read these system messages, that is great!

Thanks to the author!
bybaijianpeng, February 22, 2011
ContentNotifier
This plugin can show a NEW indicator image above or below the article title, but, I think it should be displayed just in the same line as the article title, this is the word "before" or "after" means!
Owner's reply

You are right; I changed it to above and below in version 1.2.1.

bybaijianpeng, February 21, 2011
BonckoSlideShow
The author leave too many Italian language strings in the XML file and English language file, so it is very difficult to translate it.

I also want to translate those navigation strings, like "previous group" and "full screen", etc. Hope you will add those strings into the language file.

When testing it, at first I can't understand why there is a big Green S symbol in the center of the image, then I realized that it is like "copyright link" for free versions. Hope you can add some tooltip to that S symbol like "pay $5 to remove this".

Anyway, this is a good gallery plugin.
Owner's reply

Ok, i'll implemented ToolBar lables traslation in next version

bybaijianpeng, February 5, 2011
MathPublisher
This is the best plugin to insert math fomula inside Joomla article content.

Hope the author will change the parameter labels in the XML file (joomla 1.6 version) so that I can translate it into Chinese language.

Thanks.
bybaijianpeng, December 15, 2010
HOT Login
Undoubtly this is a great plugin!

But, it only loads the default mod_login, user can not choose his own login module. If I use CB, you know, the default login module can't have CB registration link, so I must use mod_cblogin now. In this case, this plugin will not be able to load mod_cblogin.

Hope there will be a new option to choose login module (by ID or list selection, not position).

Thanks.
Owner's reply

Hi,
thanks for your review.
Before helping you I ignore the existance of Community Builder. Shame on me! Now I will study it and I'll surely implement the CB Login in the future version of HOT Login.

bybaijianpeng, October 21, 2010
Unsubscribe
In my test, user A can delete user B, if he know the usernae, password and email of user B. I think this is NOT safe.

You must restrict the current logged in user can ONLY delete his/her own account.
Owner's reply

If user A know this data of user B, it is indifferent login or not login to the website. User A can login with user and pass of user B and delete or change his data.

bybaijianpeng, October 18, 2010
Core Design Launchy module
This module give me a big help when searching something at backend admin panel.

The only limit is the Search String Length Limit, which requirs minimal 3 characters but in Chinese language even 1 (one) character is also a word. So I hope the author can offer an option for choosing the string length limit. Thanks.
bybaijianpeng, October 6, 2010
Today I tried the v3.2.0 of Titlelink plugin, it works fine.

This is a great idea to create internal links. However, I am thinking of another better usage: I can use it to turn the article system into a Wiki.

Two things need to be improved:

1. If I enabled "auto create link", then, on the "submit article" form, the "title" should be automatically filled (or just hidden to prevent manual input), because the Article Title HAD been specified in the syntax code.

2. If I disable "auto create link" feature, the text is showing up as Bold style. However, I think they should be just plain text.

Thanks.
bybaijianpeng, September 30, 2010
Simple Thickbox Gallery
This is a simple way to make portfolio page. However, I think you can add an option to let user choose : when click on the thumbnail image, open it in Lightbox overlay, or just open the article full-text page to read the details of that project(in this case, do not load the jQuery script to make page light).

And, if we choose to show a "Section", can you group those thumbnails by Category?

Thanks.
bybaijianpeng, September 29, 2010
Simple Email Form
1. The email content (body) field should be shown by default.
2. Why should the user input the path and URL for CAPTCHA? I think the CAPTCHA should work out-of-box! Could you please use relative path for it and then you can hide this parameter by using /cache folder by default?
3. The language selector should have an option to detect site language setting or the client browser language.
4. Fields labels should be translatable in language file, NOT to manually set in parameters.
Owner's reply

Not sure what is meant by #1. As for #2, it was a conscious decision not to have the module create a CAPTCHA directory. It's too dangerous to have the module write files to some arbitrary place on the host web server! Much better to let the administrator make a conscious decision where to create the CAPTCHAs. The latest version displays an error message with a "suggested" CAPTCHA directory and URL. As for #3 and #4 I agree with baijianpeng. You will note that it is on my "todo list". I most likely won't get to it in the version for Joomla 1.5, but will add that capability in when the version for Joomla 1.6 is released (most likely not until January of 2011).

bybaijianpeng, September 27, 2010
Enbed PDF
I tested this plugin on my localhost testing server which was built with XAMPP on my Windows 7 64-bit.

Since Adobe Reader has NO 64-bit version, I did not install it. I use PDFXchange Viewer 64-bit instead. This viewer also has browser plugin. When I use Embed PDF plugin to display a pdf document inside my Joomla article, I noticed some weird things happened.

If I shift to use Google viewer for this plugin, it can't open the PDF document at all (maybe Google viewer does not support localhost server?).

Hope this plugin will support other viewer than Google and Adobe. Thanks.
Owner's reply

Hi,
thank you for trying my Joomla plugin.
About your "weird things"...

Google and also Google viewer is an internet service. So if you would like to show a pdf file with it, your pdf file have to be available for that service!
If there is a localhost in that path, it probably will not be available from www! So you also will not be able to use any pdf plugin exept it is on the same machine, where the pdf is saved!


Maik

bybaijianpeng, September 19, 2010
BF Auction
Who will be satisfied with such a simple auction component? You even can't use WYSIWYG editor for the item description field.

It is difficult to assign image and you can only assign one image for each item. The frontend "thumbnail" of this image is acturally just a HTML resize, not real thumbnail. When you click on this "thumbnail", there is NO pop-up(such as lightbox), but open the full-size image in new window!

The worst is, it can't refresh the current bid automatically. Don't you know there is something called AJAX?

After a long time, this component is still so simple like a doll for a child. I noticed that the author has several Joomla extensions in hand. If you are too busy, please just focus on one product and make it a good product. Thanks.
bybaijianpeng, September 19, 2010
sigplus
The best plugin to show image gallery inside Joomla article!
bybaijianpeng, September 14, 2010
sdMacros
If you want to use Macros through out the whole article system (com_content) of Joomla, you should use a component to manage all kinds of Macros, then insert specific macro with a plugin, instead of a single plugin!

This extension started on the wrong direction. How can it be a good extension then?
Owner's reply

Well, it can be a good extension if it's useful, well written, and well supported:) Actually, a component was briefly considered, but didn't seem to give much, if any, advantage for the increased complexity. There was little reason to create an entire management component when the existing article infrastructure works perfectly for this. This may change as features are added, but currently there is nothing that requires a component. sdMacros is still in beta and I'm open to suggestions. If you see advantages to having a component, I would appreciate you posting them in the support forum. sdMacros has proven very useful on several of our websites and I suspect it will prove useful on others' sites as well.
Thanks.

bybaijianpeng, September 10, 2010
This small component can really generate random passwords. But I think the following improvements will make it better: 1. add English language file 2. generate the password without refresh the page (maybe you need AJAX?) 3. add Copy button beside or below the result box.

Thanks to the author.
Owner's reply

Thank you very much for your review. A installable english-translation is available on the download site. A copy button works well only with IE, other browsers have too many restrictions.

I will think about your second suggestion.

Greetings
Alfred Bösch

bybaijianpeng, September 7, 2010
read less text
This plugin works fine. I am glad to see the latest version added the feature to respect the existing Readmore link.

I met a problem when using this, and the author gave me instant and detailed instructions to solve that, which is my fault NOT a bug of this plugin.

Thanks to the author.
bybaijianpeng, September 5, 2010
JVideoClip
In ordert o test this component, I installed FFMPEG on my XAMPP (tutorial published on joomlagate.com), then I found this component very good, it can convert my video files (mp4, wmv) to flv on the fly.

The frontend layout is also very clean and neat.

Only one thing I think should be changed: the flv files should be stored in /media folder, NOT in the /components folder, because if the user want to upgrade the component by uninstall/reinstall, he will lost all uploaded videos.

If this component can also support to add remote video on Youtube/Youku to make video gallery, that will be great!

Thanks to the author.
Owner's reply

User should upgrade JVideoClip without uninstall the component then the videos will not be deleted.

It is easy to leave the videos after uninstall but not sure the Editor Team allowed this un-clean uninstall.

There are a lot of features we plan to put in the future included you suggestion to add remote videos.

Thank you for your review and rating!

bybaijianpeng, September 3, 2010
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
One click registration
Sounds good idea for quick registration. But in my test, I only show two fields: Name and Email, then I tried to register a new user, but after submit the form, Joomla told me "Username and password do not match or you do not have an account yet." error message!

I hope it can allow register with only two files: username and email, then generate random strong password and send it to the user's email address.

Hope the author will improve it soon. Thanks.
Owner's reply

I found a small bug in the config.xml file which caused that error. I didnt notice because if you go to the component parameters backend and save the config one time the problem is gone. But anyway thanks for pointing this out to me. I have fixed it! Next time try posting a message in the forum before giving a review ;)

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