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Reviews(158)
 
bybaijianpeng, August 29, 2010
This module offers many options, it is great for a quick contact module.

If you add AJAX submission and allow to translate form labels and fields validation messages, that will make this module perfect. Thanks.
bybaijianpeng, August 29, 2010
I installed this plugin, it surely can show some effects on images, but it also brings JavaScript errors/conflicts to my website.

Hope the author will check the code and fix this.
bybaijianpeng, August 27, 2010
Core Design Captcha plugin
We don't need to recoganize distorted letters, just drag the slide and you pass the CAPTCHA test. Great idea!

Hope it will support more and more 3rd party extensions!
bybaijianpeng, August 25, 2010
Feedback
This contact form extension deserves my 5 star rating! It works smoothly with built-in AJAX submission.

I would like to see another option: only allow logged-in members submit feedback.

Thanks to the author.
Owner's reply

I'm glad you like the extension! If you only want logged-in members to submit feedback, make the access level of the module "registered" (the users name & email will also auto-populate in the form).

bybaijianpeng, August 23, 2010
Teams
This component can't work if Joomla was installed in a subfolder to www root. And I think the language file is also in-complete.

Hope the author will improve it later.
Owner's reply

Seems to work fine in the demo subfolder. Complete English files are available to be translated.

bybaijianpeng, August 20, 2010
xspfplayer
I tried to use the Single song mode and use Chinese language for the song title, but it can't show my Chinese words.
bybaijianpeng, August 4, 2010
Art Feature Carousel
The Carousel effect is very good. But, there is no parameter to set the display area size, it just streched out to its hard-coded size.

If this module has a pre-set and unchangeable size, why not tell us which size should the images have? So that we can upload the images in the most suitable size.

Another problem is, though I set it to show 6 images, there are always 4 images: left, center, right and behind center. Yes, it can play those 6 images one after one, but why I can't count 6 on the Carousel?
bybaijianpeng, July 29, 2010
Easybook Reloaded
Finally somebody picked up the abandoned Easybook component and re-polished it.

Thank you very much! It works very well.
Owner's reply

You're welcome!

bybaijianpeng, July 27, 2010
ARI Image Slider
I think this is a great image slider module, it has some reasonable and smart parameters, like allows multi image paths and auto-detect subfolder option.

The only regret is, it can support lightbox plugin integration but only supports those commercial lightbox plugins from the same author. I hope you can add support to other FREE lightbox plugins too, such as Shadowbox Media Viewer plugin and NinjaShadowbox module.

Thanks.
bybaijianpeng, July 26, 2010
Weather GK4
I tested v1.1.0 of GK Weather module today. It can really show my local weather, and allows to use local language. This is great. But the City name I entered can't be shown up. Don't know why, and the official forum refuse my to post due to subscription plans, so I have to rate it here.

Thanks.
bybaijianpeng, July 26, 2010
RokTabs
This is a good Tabs module to show articles. But there lack some important options, like: limit the content length; show or hide image; generate thumbnail for large image, etc.
Hope the author will improve this better. Thanks.
bybaijianpeng, July 25, 2010
Live Clock Date
I can't believe that such a small module has so many bugs. The word before date can't show. If I empty the default text before time, after save it will be restored! If I disable date, but the dash symbol is still there before the time!...
bybaijianpeng, July 23, 2010
FW Gallery
This is a very simple gallery component, only suitable for showing one people's photo albem on his blog.

In my test, the worse is, the Lightbox in their Demo does NOT pop-up at all. There is NO option for Lightbox in parameters either.
Owner's reply

Thank you for your reviews! We are glad you like it! We`ll correct soon the lightbox functions and let you know about it.

bybaijianpeng, July 16, 2010
Phoca Font
I tested this extension today, it is very easy to use my custom font on Joomla pages.

However, the problem is, Chinese font files are always very big (there is a font file 18MB), it is very difficult to install Chinese fonts via Upload&Install method. Hope the author will add "install from folder/URL" methods, just like the Joomla Installer.

Thanks.
bybaijianpeng, July 14, 2010
Fade Gallery
I tried this gallery extension today, the effect is good, but something needs to be improved:

1. The v1.2.4 package can't install the module and plugin at the same time though the author had packed them along with the component in a single package file.

2. In my test, I used 1024*768 size images, and finally they appear in the article in the size of 400*200, which means, my images were squeezed and lost dimension ratio. This is very ugly! Hope it can keep the width/height ratio when resize.
Owner's reply

The dimention 400x200 is default, you need to set this up.
For the component - when you creat a menu item.
For module - when you add a new module.
For Plugin the dimention is second and third parameters.
example: images/sories/gallery,1024,768

bybaijianpeng, July 2, 2010
I tried the latest version v1.0.8 of this component today and found many bugs:

1. No validation for fields, you can input %?= symbols in the Telephone number field, you can use # instead of @ for email.

2. No thumbnail generating function. If you upload a big photo, it will look smaller at frontend, but it was done by SIZE HTML code, NOT real thumbnail. If you check the image filesize you will know the small photo is exactly the same as the big one.

3. Can't handle utf-8 encoded Chinese characters. When I export the addressbook, those Chinese words all became unreadable. This may because we use gb2312 encoding on PC but utf-8 on Joomla website.

4. Fields position wrong in exported CSV file. The Zipcode was exported to Address field, and Work Email was exported to Mobile Home, etc.
bybaijianpeng, June 27, 2010
Ultimate Mailing Lists (free version)
I can't imagine that a Joomla component with a version number as high as 4.33 but has NO complete language file! And still using PHP format language file on Joomla 1.5 !
Owner's reply

The versioning number has nothing to do with how old a component is! It is the dev's decision to change version numbers as he/she wants! It could be v18.95.07! So what??? As for formatting language, both produce the same result, so where's your point??? The language file is complete for the front-end, but not for the back-end, yes, so is that the only reason to rate an extension so low? You are being very unfair here...

bybaijianpeng, June 25, 2010
I made a test with this component today. When I login in as the Super Admin and tried to delete my account, this component has NO special warning or rejection, just warned me like common registered users, then after I click the button, my SuperAdmin account was also deleted.

It is lucky that this is my testing website.

I think this component should never delete the Superadmin account.

What's more, hope the author will add language file and made those pre-difined warnings and button texts translatable.

Thanks.
bybaijianpeng, June 16, 2010
Vodes
I tried this component today and the test just proved my suspect: a software not been updated for a year can't be good.

The most annoying problem is: it only supports Article system. If you want to charge credits for downloading, how?

The second worse problem is: When you enter the same article the second time, it will charge you again! That is to say, you read the same article one time, you lost 1 credit; then you read the second time, you have to pay again, because it just take away 1 extra credit automatically!

I understand now: this is the most simple and most useless credit system on Joomla. If you need a credit manager with wide 3rd extension support, and with adjustable rules, do NOT use this.

My suggestion is: try AlphaUserPoints.
Owner's reply

You need to learn to read my friend. The Vodes is the payment processor and crediting system. It is NOT intended for spending credits! The spending part is left to the user to implement in the way he wants. The included spending plugin is merely for example purposes. That's very clearly explained above. Now if you are not able to implement it then you are right: don't use it.

bybaijianpeng, June 16, 2010
I have been using Remository for more than 3 years. This is really a great enhancement to its component. Thanks to the author.
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