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bycbdh19, October 3, 2009
If you want to put multiple locations on a google map,this is your extension! It's easy to use, intuitive. One of my favorite features is that it shows a Google Map in the general configuration modes and in the add-a-place to the map mode. The other two or three extensions I looked at did not have this feature. Thank you so much for this extension! Merci!
bycbdh19, September 24, 2009
bycbdh19, September 4, 2009
As a joomla newbie, I initially had significant difficulties figuring out how to use Joomlapack.
Joomlapack support stuck with me, though, over more than two dozen forum posts between us.
Turns out that problems I had trying to clone my online site onto my computer locally inspired a fix by the developer. Which worked!
Now I'm able to back-up my online site locally on my computer, and I have cloned a back-up of my primary site on fatcow.com to godaddy.com.
There are some issues with SEF on my cloned sight on go-daddy. I have to set SEF to "no" in order for it to display right. But, to me, this is a minor issue.
I really appreciate the dedication of the joomlapack developers. One suggestion, though (and I'd suggest this to many developers of joomla extensions).
When writing directions on how to install/use an extension, please try to put yourself in the mindset of a true Joomla newbie and write the directions in "baby-step" mode.
Often, documentation skips the baby steps in between the steps that are actually written down, assuming that "everyone" knows how to do these un-written steps.
Baby-step directions take more time, but they really help newbies. I'd guess newbies are a big chunk of JoomlaPack users, as it's quite complicated to move a joomla site from one server another.
I don't think baby-step directions will offend the experts (I hope not!). Finally, baby-step directions could save a lot of time on the back-end in terms of fewer forum support questions and requests.
Anyway, I'm sticking with JoomlaPack and I look forward to updates and new versions!
Joomlapack support stuck with me, though, over more than two dozen forum posts between us.
Turns out that problems I had trying to clone my online site onto my computer locally inspired a fix by the developer. Which worked!
Now I'm able to back-up my online site locally on my computer, and I have cloned a back-up of my primary site on fatcow.com to godaddy.com.
There are some issues with SEF on my cloned sight on go-daddy. I have to set SEF to "no" in order for it to display right. But, to me, this is a minor issue.
I really appreciate the dedication of the joomlapack developers. One suggestion, though (and I'd suggest this to many developers of joomla extensions).
When writing directions on how to install/use an extension, please try to put yourself in the mindset of a true Joomla newbie and write the directions in "baby-step" mode.
Often, documentation skips the baby steps in between the steps that are actually written down, assuming that "everyone" knows how to do these un-written steps.
Baby-step directions take more time, but they really help newbies. I'd guess newbies are a big chunk of JoomlaPack users, as it's quite complicated to move a joomla site from one server another.
I don't think baby-step directions will offend the experts (I hope not!). Finally, baby-step directions could save a lot of time on the back-end in terms of fewer forum support questions and requests.
Anyway, I'm sticking with JoomlaPack and I look forward to updates and new versions!
bycbdh19, September 3, 2009
This plugin works nicely and looks nice on my pages.
Thank you so much!
A few suggestions:
- you might want to make it more clear in your summary that people who use this plug-in do have the option NOT to use the "sexy" graphic; if that had been more clear to me, I would have checked this plugin out much earler, and saved the time of going through some of the other social bookmarking plugins/modules, 95% of which: a) did not work properly; b)and/or did not allow you any flexibility in terms of which categories, articles they display on;
-- I don't even know if any social bookmarking programs offer this, but an option for the user to select target_blank, etc. for the links to the social networking sites sure would be great!
-- I wish I could control the order the icons display in. I think there's a long way to do this, drop all the icons, then add the icon you want to display last first, and go in a "backwards" adding order so that you end up adding the icon you want listed first, last
-- finally, it took me a little while to figure out which of the css padding numbers was padding on the bottom; seems like you might want to add some default pixels to the bottom padding, and/or make clear to people that if the second, or third row of icons isn't displaying, it's because the person hasn't added enough bottom padding (there's also the issue with Joomla's "next" and "previous" links at the bottom of pages).
Thank you again!
Thank you so much!
A few suggestions:
- you might want to make it more clear in your summary that people who use this plug-in do have the option NOT to use the "sexy" graphic; if that had been more clear to me, I would have checked this plugin out much earler, and saved the time of going through some of the other social bookmarking plugins/modules, 95% of which: a) did not work properly; b)and/or did not allow you any flexibility in terms of which categories, articles they display on;
-- I don't even know if any social bookmarking programs offer this, but an option for the user to select target_blank, etc. for the links to the social networking sites sure would be great!
-- I wish I could control the order the icons display in. I think there's a long way to do this, drop all the icons, then add the icon you want to display last first, and go in a "backwards" adding order so that you end up adding the icon you want listed first, last
-- finally, it took me a little while to figure out which of the css padding numbers was padding on the bottom; seems like you might want to add some default pixels to the bottom padding, and/or make clear to people that if the second, or third row of icons isn't displaying, it's because the person hasn't added enough bottom padding (there's also the issue with Joomla's "next" and "previous" links at the bottom of pages).
Thank you again!
bycbdh19, August 17, 2009
As others have said, SectionEx does what it says it will do.
Basically, it adds nice versatility to your section layout. As a Joomla! beginner, who's used to working with HTML pages, and doing my own thing, I definitely wanted this.
I wanted more versatility for a blogging page on my site, and this gave it to me.
Thank you!
Basically, it adds nice versatility to your section layout. As a Joomla! beginner, who's used to working with HTML pages, and doing my own thing, I definitely wanted this.
I wanted more versatility for a blogging page on my site, and this gave it to me.
Thank you!
bycbdh19, August 17, 2009
I'm a Joomla! newbie who's creating a news/blogging site. I couldn't believe that joomla has no good captioning program internal to it -- yes, you can use the photo caption function, but as soon as you want to add "hspace", "vspace" "border" to a photo, the photo caption doesn't work.
In the Joomla! help forums some people were offering complicated CSS workarounds to this problem. I didn't want to deal with that.
One person in a Joomla! forum mentioned EasyImageCaption.
I tried it, and really like it. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to do a lot of photo captioning, and doesn't like the JCE editor replacement for TinyMCE.
I don't like JCE because I have a dark background on my page and JCE requires, you guessed it, changes to various CSS files, and creation thereof, for you to see white in the edit box if your page has a dark background.
Anyway, thank you again, or as they say in German -- I believe the author is German,
Vielen Dank!
In the Joomla! help forums some people were offering complicated CSS workarounds to this problem. I didn't want to deal with that.
One person in a Joomla! forum mentioned EasyImageCaption.
I tried it, and really like it. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to do a lot of photo captioning, and doesn't like the JCE editor replacement for TinyMCE.
I don't like JCE because I have a dark background on my page and JCE requires, you guessed it, changes to various CSS files, and creation thereof, for you to see white in the edit box if your page has a dark background.
Anyway, thank you again, or as they say in German -- I believe the author is German,
Vielen Dank!





