Installation was a breeze and everything was up and running in no time... Placing UIajaxIM in a wrapper improved the integration of the IM into the website template...

Only one thing that I was disappointed in or perhaps I have done something wrong... It doesn't recognize when a user is already logged onto the site and forces them to log on again in order to use the IM...

A couple of ideas for future versions... Setting access levels to rooms... ie An admin can create a room and set it's access to admin only... Then only other admins can see and enter that room for chat...

Make it possible that the IM can be popped out to a seperate window so users can continue browsing the site... This would need to be done with both the IM window and individual chat rooms...

I'm sure I can think of some more ideas :) but overall I am very happy with this product...

I've been playing around with JXtended Magazine for the last couple months... Without a doubt it adds an amount of flexibility and customization that I previously thought impossible with Joomla...

Out of the box it's quite cool and still much more flexible than other options... However after digging for a while you start to realise all the weird and wonderful things you always wanted to do but couldn't are now possible...

Now having said that you aren't going to achieve spectacular results without a fair bit of coding knowledge... With time and effort though you can and will get results that are not possible with other components...

If you are trying to do something different with your site... Trying to get rid of that Joomla feel that so many sites have... Then Magazine gives you the flexibility to achieve that...

If you are a coder then you can't go past this... If not then it's still works well but could be prettier... Personally I wouldn't consider using anything else now and am rolling it out to site after site...

I looked at JXtended Comments way back in it's infancy... Even at that time it had almost everything that I needed, or wanted, in a comment system...

Coming back to it for inclusion in a new website I noted that all but one of my feature requirements were now present... So without hesitation a license was bought..

The only one missing was some form of integration into Community Builder 1.2... All I really needed was for JXtended Comments to use CB1.2 avatars instead of Gravatar... That and the ability to link back to a users CB profile page...

Well I'm happy to say that JXtended now has that feature... Not officially mind you... I've made the code changes necessary to get it working with CB... Perhaps not the neatest or most efficient way of doing it but it does work... Fingers crossed the code changes might make it into the next revision as an official feature... One can dream...

You can see the code changes needed in the JXtended forum under both the pre-sale and subscription section...

So if you were waiting for JXtended to add CB support then the wait is over... No reason not to go and buy a license for this wonderful comment system now :)