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Just needs a few improvements.. such as decent joomla core SEF support.. URLs are ugly. A search plugin is a necessity, why have a FAQ if the results don't show in a joomla search. And the ability to turn off the developer's backlink. With such features it could easily be a commercial extension.

First of all this looks like it was based on the Nivo slider...

A problem I noticed was that slideshow only plays nice if loaded into a module position allowing full width of the template... Putting another module to the right of this one will not work... at least not in Gantry because it forces anything next to it to go under it.

Also there is no way to turn off the slides from linking to the k2 item pages... so forget about making the slideshow independent of the rest of your site without hacking the code.

Now the coolest thing about it is that it re-sizes images to the width specified. Just make sure your k2 setting of XL is set to as wide as the slideshow. It then crops the image top and bottom to fit your size... awesome.


My Wishlist...

Ability to turn off linking/clickable - so it's a static slideshow.

Ability to set the link to a URL of choice, based on an extrafield, rather than linking to the actual item. If that extra field is unused it is not clickable. Then you would have a slideshow that's clickable, but items link to pages other than the slide items.

Ability to load into module positions next to other modules without it breaking the template layout and forcing the modules to its right to be below it.

Do these things and I would easily pay $50 for it... or $100 for an annual dev license, because it would be the absolute best slideshow tool for k2 or Joomla out there.

K2 should have this as a default module... always wanted something this simple... Great job.

I have built some really complicated forms with this tool.

As far as I can tell this is the only form tool that has easy rules to hide or show questions or whole sections based on your choices.

Unfortunately these on/off rules don't always seem to work, but the developer seems to always respond to my requests and help me sort stuff out.

For simpler forms I generally use another tool, but for complex, context-sensitive forms I turn to this one.

I've used it for a long time... components are nice for this because there is an area you can tell clients to go put a picture into...

..but it really is due for an upgrade. Mootools 1.2, maybe better caching, auto-resizing of uploaded images. I'm on the quest for a upgrade or replacement for this tool.

This was needed...

Feedback:
add press kit area and media kit area to your extension description in the JED.

My only gripe is I had to edit 3 pages to remove the powered by stuff on a tool I paid for... I make sites that look good and that requires removing as many powered by tags as possible. Make that an option in settings.

It looks cool and I wanted to like it... issues:

Only works with New Mootools Enabled (1.2)... fine they mentioned that... But also..

Does not work in IE7... you can see this on their demo. Wish I had checked it in that browser first before buying. Has issues with z-index, and hidden portions showing.

The Module Class Suffix param is not the Joomla Module Class Suffix... its just a class suffix to the slider within the module, so you are forced to have it in a module with default styling unless you alter the code.

If they fixed the IE7 issues and the module class suffix it would be a great tool but otherwise I cannot recommend it as of yet.

I'm hopeful for an update.

These guys definitely deserve props. Great tool. Thanks for contributing to the joomla community!

This is new and works great... I installed this along with the CQI Custom Quick Icons on a site and this saved me tons of time manually adding in all the main static articles.

This would be even better if you could limit it to a specific category for sites with large articles... then I could use this on every site I do rather than just the tiny ones. hint hint... ;-)

Positives: You can create custom HTML templates for Intro and Mainbody of articles using field tags set in the tool. Very cool. This was used at my site to create a custom catalog of products. It has some advanced rules which make it its own programming tool of sorts. It allowed me to have several different types of products but only one form, with if/then statements in the HTML template.

Negatives: This tool is not super intuitive especially due to the confusing naming of "forms" which are articles and forms are called something else. The other confusing thing is that anything you create must then in turn be pushed to the database as an article and if you make changes you must refresh it. There is no way to copy a "form".

Great tool as a component menu link... the plugin and the module for some reason are different and had errors on my system...but I didn't need those for my current project...and this is a new tool. Keep up the good work!

I would love to see the coordinates map tool added to the Category and Config settings...since I keep going into the destinations to use that tool to find the coordinates and then I copy and paste.

The only way this could be better is if it were a plugin. Works like a charm. Very nice.

This works like a charm... now if only the developer would release another plugin that makes the intro text turn into a link to the article in similar fashion... then I could have the image and the text take them to the article page!

Had a client request this very thing today and lo and behold it exists! Thanks!

So it seems to work as mentioned and integrates well. There is no subject line which is odd, but I suppose it distinguishes it from an email and makes it quicker to use.