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bydbmorgan, March 25, 2011
j4age
First, I must say that I loved JoomlaStats and used it constantly. However, there had not been any new work done on it in over a year and I was ready to try a more up to date version.

I had statistics dating back to 2007 and migration was a long and painful process. However, I received excellent support and the results were worth the effort. You can migrate a huge database if you are willing to go to a little effort. A fresh install on a new site would be a piece of cake.

I have a few minor issues. The mouse scroll button does not like to work so scrolling up and down a page is wonky. I miss the fact that JS had links for registered users on the visitors view that would take you to Joomla OR VirtueMart user data. Mostly I like the fact that this component has a team actively developing it unlike JS which had gone completely dormant. Nice Work!
bydbmorgan, December 14, 2009
pcDTR
This has the potential to be a great extension but it was not what I expected. First I installed the plug-in and then uploaded fonts and then activated the plug-in. I go to my home page ans see a new font and wonder whjere it came from. There is no documentation for this plug-in and the web site forum does not have "how to use" instructions. These little issues could easily be solved and should be.

My greatest disappointment was to open my JCE content editor for testing expecting to find my uploaded fonts as available selections. Not so. I guess they must all be defined through the supplemental style sheet. Experimenting with fonts is a trial and error process and it beomes tedious when they must be applied through a style sheet. Plus I would like to have the option to applu a new font to selected sections of text only. If this extension can do that I do not know how and therein lies the problem.
Owner's reply

The little issue with documentation is in the works. http://pcdtr.otherland.se/forum/6-how-to . What people must understand is that I'm doing this in my spare time. And i hate writing manuals. So the community is more then welcome to help.

Then the JCE issues. Answer is in the forum http://pcdtr.otherland.se/forum/5-help/161-jce-question-answer

bydbmorgan, November 19, 2009
I was using this plug in with no known problems for several months until I updated to a more recent version. All of a sudden, new registrations ground to a halt and customers were complaining. I turned off one of the options that was refusing emails from my own domain, and then today it was refusing an email address from sbcglobal.net and so I disabled it completely. Too many customers are being turned away!
Owner's reply

It is as restrictive as you make it. ALL options can be turned off, and updates often include an additional check to another spambot verification service.

I didn't notice you requesting help in the support forums - that would usually be the first place to start in the event of problems. It would be helpful to me and everyone else if problems were reported so that any issues can be identified and resolved.

bydbmorgan, September 25, 2009
JoomlaStats
I have used JoomlaStats for several years but had some issues when I migrated to Joomla 1.5. JoomlaStats 3.x not only is 1.5 compatible, but is improved in many ways. I have much of the functionality I get from Google Analytics and I get it with a much easier to use interface.

A great component that works "right out of the box". You can be up and running in five minutes.
bydbmorgan, September 24, 2009
I have needed something like this for years. I used to received order from outside the USA and would have to go back and ask for additional shipping money. Later I duplicated the flex module to "flex international" and it worked fine but many customers neglected to select International shipping" and I was back to wher I started.

This solution works brilliantly to automatically select whether the customer is shipping to an address within the "home" country, or another country and calculates the rates accordingly.

My wish list would be to create another extension that would allow users to select the rates based on a an order value range such as the "shipvalue" extention bu including the logic to determn domestic vs international. Good work!