I tried a lot of newsletter components. This is the one that does what I want.

You publish articles in different categories. Then you decide which categories that shall be in the newsletter and how often the newsletter shall be sent. Thats it. From now on, Vemod will automatically send news from the content on your Joomla site.

Configuration took a little time to set up, but once configured, it works great.

Lots of great features in this newsletter. The users are able to choose if they want html og plain text news.

I was sad when they stopped developing this component. Now I am really happy that it is back!

I have tried a lot of form components available including some commercial ones and wasted considerable amount of time. They all have some quirks and strange behavior. ArtForms is however among the best I have used.

The good:
- It is simple to install and set up
- It works - even when the user has I.E browser
- Nice looking forms
- It is free
- It keeps a database of all submitted forms - which can be exported to Excel and CSV.
- Fields can be sorted (no, not all form components are able to that)

The bad:
- No radio buttons (use list instead)
- Cannot set the user’s email adress as "from" address (you cannot reply to the emails)
- Cannot list checkboxes horizontally
- No documentation. This component seems to be very powerful - but we will never know.

The ugly:
- Captcha: The form will be blanked out when entering wrong captcha code, making the user start all over again.
- Captcha is not aligned with the form fields
- Bug: When pressing Submit button the user gets a blank window. There is a fix for this.
- The "Thank you" window conflicted with my JA Purity template layout. Had to redirect to a separate "Thank you" article.

Now, why isn´t a good form component integrated in Joomla in the first place?

First I had a fancy gallery extensions - which suddenly refused to work. Installed Phoca Gallery, and it does the job without any fuzz.

Jan is making great extensions (look up everything named "Phoca"). It seems that his programming always is clean and simple.

My wish for this component is that there should be more different ways to show the galleries. There a few, but most of them are only slight variations.

Jan is making great extensions (look up everything named "Phoca"). It seems that his programming always is clean and simple.

After testing several guestbooks, I decided to use Phoca Guestbook because it works without any fuzz.

You can edit the captcha tables to remove letters and numbers that are easily confused like 1/l, O/0

This is a very simple newsletter extension. It is very easy to understand. You can import and export csv address files.

The newsletters have to be created and sent manually. One great feature is you can add articles to the newsletter by clicking in a list. There is also throttling of email to prevent all your newsletters to get stuck in the recipients’ spamfilters.

If you need a simple newletter that just works, this is it.

This is a very simple newsletter extension. It is very easy to understand. You can import and export csv address files.

The newsletters have to be created and sent manually. One great feature is you can add articles to the newsletter by clicking in a list.

However, I could not get it to actually send any newsletters. Development has recently been taken over by some other guys, and they seem to be working on version 2 rather than fixing version 1.

In the meantime, I recommend Communicator, which is exactly the same component - but it worked right away.

EventList is an excellent component for concerts, festivals and other events. It is quite easy to modify the css to fit your homepage.

Be sure to download the improved Module to replace the default one. It is called mod_eventlist_ext. It lets you customize the module view.

This component is easy to install and gives your site a great download area. I had do some css editing to match my site template - about time that I learn that anyway.

Sent an email to the developer and got an answer in about three hours - great support!

There is one field for allowed file types and another one for prohibited file types - but they are not connected. So you may actually end up both allowing and denying the same file type if you are not careful.