I am using Joomla 1.5 and bookmarks component works well enough for my needs, it was easy to install and I was able to get started very quickly... both things that are important to me.

I have two problems with the component that will probably get me to look for something else though.

1. The use of tables is making it very hard to get the layout exactly the way I want. Many elements are not given their own style, they are just lumped into the table and I have spent over a week trying to hunt them down in the code and apply style tags (which isn't always an easy thing to do). I could recode to get rid of the tables but that is more difficult and time consuming with this particular code.

2. The component does not have it's own stylesheet! This, in my opinion, is the hardest thing to either overcome or deal with. I tried various ways of providing a stylesheet but was eventually forced to create new styles in an existing stylesheet, which, in my case, causes it's own set of issues that I then have to deal with.

I am giving the component 4 stars because, while I have possibly irreconcilable issues with it, it is easy to get started, feature-rich (even if you're using Joomla 1.5), and does one heck of a bang-up job. No other bookmark component does as well as this one or comes as close to what I need.

This is a nice component, I think it just needs to be updated to more modern coding.

This is a great component, I am using it for my FAQ and Tutorial sections and couldn't be happier.

Thanks

All-in-all this is a very good component and I would gladly recommend it to my clients who need a simple but beautiful events listing system. Over the last several months I have used almost all of the available events components and found that EventList is by far the most attractive and professional looking for showing the actual events and presenting the event information.

However I have run into several limitations that seriously limit it's usefulness for the majority of my clients. The first being the registration for events, while many events that my clients want listed are free there are often events that are not and would find the component far more useful in a wider variety of sites if there was a way of showing registration fees as gathering specific registration information. Without this I cannot use the component for paid-for events.

A dedicated calendar would also be highly useful!

I couldn't be happier with this extension, it is provides the most professional feeling knowledge base out there. It does exactly what I want it to do and looks amazing.

I had some trouble installing on my Joomla 1.5 site but Phil was right there to walk me through everything. I can't even begin to tell you how refreshing the support is, I have never experienced anything that even approximates his commitment and helpfulness. I would have given it 5 stars even if it wasn't one of the top 5 Joomla extensions just because of the service and support!