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HikaShop
★★★★★
Very Slick
byjgribble, April 2, 2013
HikaShop
I use the commercial Business edition. It lets you build your own Amazon.com. Somewhat complicated because it's very powerful and flexible. I never object to commercial extensions that save us time and agony. Documentation could be better but support is superlative. For building full-blown e-commerce sites, our first choice.
KC Admin QuickIcons
★★★★★
All Good
byjgribble, March 28, 2013
KC Admin QuickIcons
Allows you to create an intuitively labeled mini panel for major components. Users don't even need to know the component name. They just click on "Manage Bookstore." Or, "Manage Forms." Whatever you want to label the icon. Pretty easy to upload custom icons. So there's a lot less explaining to do when you hand off the site. A bit tricky to get working, but part of that was on me. Made a beginner's mistake. All in all, impressive.
BT Smart Search
★★★★
Truly Powerful
byjgribble, March 26, 2013
BT Smart Search
Five stars for functionality but only two for styling options in the module. With some work on that, this would be an amazing addition. You have almost infinite control over which content you want the module to search. Say, like me, you want it to only search a huge reference database. Not the whole site. Perfect. Now, though, I wish that same control was possible in the module itself instead of the core component. So that different modules could be configured to search different parts of the site. Then you'd really have a breakthrough. Am also using the Bowthemes login module. Pretty much the same comments to the effect that it works perfectly and installs without any fuss. But I would like to see more styling options in the control panel instead of having to play around with the CSS. I hope this review inspires the company to take these two very good products even further.
ARI Easy Slider
★★★★★
Beautiful
byjgribble, March 13, 2013
ARI Easy Slider
No ARI product has ever failed me. This one is mandatory on all our sites. Easy to configure, works flawlessly. Many different move effects, including slideshow mode. Because it pulls actual content, add hyperlinks to your heart's content. We've used it in some creative ways that no other component could handle. Just fantastic support, too.
Form Maker
★★★★★
Brilliant
byjgribble, March 13, 2013
Form Maker
This is my new must-have, especially for membership sites. Substantially automates both form creation and data management. Use it for any interactive need you can imagine. We hooked it up to Hikashop to build a sophisticated event registration system. Can be buggy on initial install, but support is off-the-charts responsive. Much prefer this to Chronoforms because it's much easier for our client/end users to manage. Also easily styled to complement your overall site design. Already good, will get even better.
EasyBlog
★★★★★
Exceeds Expectations
byjgribble, April 3, 2012
EasyBlog
The only way to go if you're already into 2.5. Well worth the pro price. Everything works out of the box. Support is swift and the level of documentation far above average. Social integrations include all the mandatories. Except Google+, but am told that's because Google hasn't enabled it yet. Kudos to these guys. Using EasyBlog on my company site and now will be offering it as a value-added service to customers.
Contact Enhanced Component
★★★★★
Terrific Addition
byjgribble, January 27, 2012
Contact Enhanced Component
A fast, easy way to really spice up your contact page. Add all kinds of custom form fields and use the sidebar to provide related information to users. Love the Google Maps integration. It's such a pleasure to encounter great documentation and fast service. Had one puzzling CSS issue. Douglas got back me inside of an hour. He quickly spotted what line of code needed fixing. Took me but a few seconds. Presto! The component saved me many hours of fiddling for a small, reasonable price.
ARI Ext Menu
★★★★★
Simple, Clever and Powerful
byjgribble, November 9, 2011
ARI Ext Menu
I got better service for this free extension than I've gotten for many commercial extensions. Needed a bit of custom CSS, but ARI provided it very quickly. It was easy to add right in the back-end controls of the module. Includes highly flexible style controls for background color, text color, hover color, hover text color etc. Sub-menus can be styled independently if you want. Simple to configure horizontally or vertically. A little bit "plain jane" in appearance, but if you wanted to you could readily soup it up graphically. I can see many uses.
OSE Membership™
★★★★★
Great Solution, Will Get Even Better
byjgribble, October 6, 2011
OSE Membership™
First of all, six stars for customer support. Both prompt and insightful. At a very attractive price point, this is a brilliantly conceived tool for online management of an association or club, including seamlessly integrated e-commerce capabilities. Too much customization has to be done in the PHP files, but the developers are working hard to improve that. Plays nice with lots of other major components. Has the most comprehensive user-friendly payment gateway I have ever seen. If your client is taking in lots of paid registrations or subscriptions, you really must also buy the companion component OSE Reporter. Makes life so nice for the accounting people who have to reconcile e-commerce orders against actual credit card payments. Setting up individual member lists and payment plans is simple and intuitive. The next-gen component is coming in December, and I can't wait to upgrade. OSE has enthusiastically embraced our suggestions for how to simplify things for the end user. They "get it" that the end user is king. The minor issues we had to overcome were well worth it and then some.
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