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Reviews(10)
 
byscorpio66, September 16, 2009
Plugin Googlemaps
I installed this plugin sometime ago, and forgot to review it. (Sorry Mike) At the time I had numerous problems, all down to my lack of knowledge and stupidity. Mike always answered support questions superfast, and even took the time to go into the backend of my site to get things as I wanted. I recently upgraded to Joomla 1.5.14 and wondered why my maps wasnt working. Within an hour Mike had emailed me back and pointed out where I had gone wrong. (A simple case of not following instructions!) This is a superb plugin, and the support is second to none. If you are like me, we use these free extensions, and dont always donate to the programmers.
This guy deserves all the success he gets. And I just donated again. If you need a google map plugin THIS IS THE KIDDIE !!
Thanks Mike. A Real Extension star.
byscorpio66, September 10, 2009
CB user list / CB last users
Another super little plugin that shows visitors that my site is actually attracting new members! LOL.
Now visitors can see a neat little listing of my latest members with registration date.
Simple install.
Simple adjustments.
Thanks to the programmers. These little snippets are gems.
byscorpio66, September 10, 2009
Due to the setup of my site, certain 'articles' are manually put up in extra modules on my site by myself. Every time a user changed their 'about us' field, I needed to update their 'article'. This meant going through every users 'about us' field on a fairly regular basis to check for alterations etc.

Needless to say, this was a minor irritant, but I was willing to do this as the articles were fairly important.

But no more!

Any changes, and I get an email informing me of the changes made, and by whom. Terrific!

MANY Thanks to the programmer for a simple but EXTREMELY useful extension.
1 minute install, 1 minute to alter some paramters, and Im good to go.
Recommended..
byscorpio66, September 3, 2009
HTMLMap manager
I have been trying to insert image maps into my Joomla site for some time. Nothing but hassle, and code changes etc, then I stumbled upon this extension purely by luck. Just great. I had my image map in my homepage article within 30 mins from installing. Yes, the documaentation could be a little better, but if you have ever used image maps before, its pretty much common sense. And yes, you have to enter the coordinates from outside the application using your fav offline wysiwyg editor. This is the only reason I have not given this extension the full five stars. But if you are having fun with image maps. I can recommend this whole heartedly. Well done programmers. (Just need the coordinates to be entered from within and you have a surefire winner!)
byscorpio66, August 25, 2009
Public Mail
Ive been pretty happy with CB since I installed it, but it did cause me one major problem.
Visitors could only email members through the normal User Profile email link.
As a subscription site, this was fairly useless as I could not tell how many of my members were being contacted by visitors, meaning I had no record of successful 'hits'.
This excellent plugin changed all that. Now vistors contact my members through my site, (Public Email sends to mail to the member)and I can just go to Myphpadmin and view all mails sent, who by, etc etc.
Plugin worked straight from the get go, no nonsense, does what it says.
Thanks developers.
This plugin is worth a small fee, but NO its free.
Top notch, and should be incorporated into CB.
byscorpio66, May 9, 2009
Pro Sticky Message
I purchased this extension as part of a pack from Projoom. I am using the Joomlashack Lightfast template, and was having problems in Internet Explorer. The extension worked great in Firefox, but in IE,as it was not displaying correctly no matter what settings I used. I contacted Projoom and Raz told me it was a template issue as I was not using the Joomla preloaded ones. I realised that I was stuffed because my template has many different CSS settings. So I thought I could not use sticky message as many of my users insist on using IE. To my amazement, Raz asked me to send my template details, and proceeded to change and correct the CSS file, index.php, and templateDetails.xml files so it all worked great in IE too. I know they probably cannot do this for all users who use different templates, but to me this was help beyond the call of duty and was not a Projoom error. What can I say? They have a regular customer in me from here on in. Support like this is worth its weight in gold when paying for extensions. 5 stars but would have given ten.
Superb product. Outstanding support.
byscorpio66, April 17, 2009
JoomGallery
I have had JoomGallery for some time now. Overall yes it looks a nice extension. However, myself and several other users have expressed a problem with the detail view when viewed in Internet Explorer.
I have posted numerous times on the support forum, as have others, but this subject just gets ignored. Why? Is it a bug? Once again, a great looking extension ruined by support. I so wanted to give this five stars, but if a problem keeps cropping up, and it is ignored, that must say something. Sorry guys...
byscorpio66, April 3, 2009
MultiAds(Make Adsense and YPN Easy)
You cant beat straight out of the box plugins that work!
5 second installation, pasted in my google code, Selected some articles I didnt want ads on, enable, done !
Does EXACTLY what it says. Great plugin and free.

Thank you. Great job.
byscorpio66, March 14, 2009
RSForm!Pro
Forms can be very time consuming to set up, and extensions are always a concern. Easy to set up? Support? Do they work? Etc Etc.

With Rs, its easy installation, no faffing about, a couple of clicks and your first form field is done, 10 minutes later your form is done.
When youve done a couple, you can set up quite complex forms in a matter of minutes.

This is a superb extension. Forms are a breeze, many options available, support is great. I could go on. If you need forms on your site. Look no further. Simply superb.
byscorpio66, February 19, 2009
Community Builder
I was extremely worried about installing this plugin. Reading the documentation, there seemd so much going on, would it muck things up for me?
Quite simply, NO!!
Installation was a breeze, just followed the installation read me. A few easy steps. (And Im a Joomla novice!) Fired up and ready to go. Lots of options and settings to adjust your community as you see fit. Im using Joomla 1.5, and it couldnt be easier. Got the download from the joomopolis site registering as a free, (not paid) user.
But after seeing this module/component, I will be subscribing. This is one addon, I want to keep on top of.
HIGHLY recommended!
Best extension Ive seen so far.
Keep it up guys, and thank you!!