I honestly don't understand how some people can take direct shots at degrading developers of FREE extensions for Joomla, even if it is just one or two people.

People put their free time into developing extension to share with everyone. If you think you put out a better extension or could help with a project, why not put your free time into helping instead of degrading someone's effort. I think some people miss the point of Open Source. This is a problem with a lot of the Joomla community. If it's free give constructive feedback to help it get better.

As far as Fabrik goes, I think it's an excellent extension. Keep up the good work!

Sadly to say, this is my first review of a component and all be it a negative one. But I can't post anything on Itoris's forum... because there isn't one!!! And yes, the link here for support is a dead link too.

I purchased this after using RSform!Pro for another website, hoping it would speed the process and maybe better configuration... but I'm very dissapointed.

The elements and properties menus are floating in the template, unlike the demo, which I assume was a Joomla 1.0 version since I purchased the Joomla 1.5 version. Maybe they should have a demo of each on their website. You can see what I am talking about in the manual... there are some pics there.

Also, the drag and drop function is slow and very sticky. I never cursed so much trying to drag things around. Getting everything lined up correctly takes time, especially on longer forms.

And speaking of longer forms... if your form is going to be longer than 900 pixels or so (don't know the exact dimension off hand), you can't use the drag and drop feature. The template isn't long enough. You need to be a math wiz once it gets past the template's height. You have to manually input the padding info on any items below the template.

And after spending an entire day tweaking a form, I now have something wrong with my form where it makes the page I installed the form on about 30,000 pixels in height. I think it has something to do with being longer than the template, who knows at this point. I am going to be very upset if I have to rebuild the entire form. Which, I'd rather spend the money at RSform than spend another entire day building one with this.

Also, if you plan to change the background color of the form, the white trim or border around checkboxes and radio buttons will remain white, which looks bad in my opinion. But RSform!Pro doesn't even have that option to change the background, so I can't be too upset with that. If your template body is something other than white you may have problems. It has CSS controls, but I personally know very little about it. Does this control the colors? Who knows, Not in the manual.

My only other grip is that there isn't a forum for Smart Former users to help eachother with. Just a lonely email address.

I respect the effort of all that try to create components and add-ons for Joomla, but for a commercial extension, I am not impressed. I will spend my $25 elsewhere from now on.