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shiftCase

Reviews(6)
 
byshiftCase, January 18, 2012
JAnt LightGallery
But they ruin it by plattering their url under it, as if we want our clients to be advertising for a slideshow app developer. this reduces the quality of this app to small time. I would never let my clients see this app.
byshiftCase, January 11, 2012
Jtag Members Directory
Easy to install and setup. In the front end, this app looks *great!*

Docked one star because a somecreative configuring is necessary to allow for front end signup, and then a manual connection needs to be made between the joomla contacts list and the JTAG app. But once you've done this, JTAG Members is easily the nicest membership list from the user experience perspective.
jUpgrade
I will start with the last observation first: works as advertised. wonderful.

The issues I initially encountered were due to not having the right version of everything setup first. First make sure you have the latest version of Joomla 1.5, which in my case, was a two-step update. Confirm the PHP parameters and version (mine was .1 below spec). Have the latest and greatest JUpgrade to work with. Finally, make sure you back up your site incase something goes awry, otherwise create a staging server.

Once I had all this done, smooth as glass.

works as advertised. wonderful.
byshiftCase, December 14, 2011
Event Booking
I find that this app, though a little convoluted to install given all the pieces that are loaded separately, worked surprisingly well with only modest effort. It seems that the flexibility to push the boundaries is there, but documentation only covers the basics, and questions to the forum go unanswered for days (or at least mine have). Still, there's a lot to like here - and the next best option costs more than twice as much. Docked one star for slow forum responses, will increase to 5 stars with timelier responses.
Owner's reply

I was alitle slow on response the questions on forum because It was my wedding and I could not work much at the time. The wedding is over and I am now back to normal work, so all the questions will be answered very fast (in less than 24 hours) from now on !

byshiftCase, November 18, 2010
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JoomlaStats
On first blush, this plugin appears to work great. But I first had to hide a JoomlaStats Activation module... but then I discovered this thing is counting bot hits. In the first week, over a hundred of bogus page views. When you go to exclude them in the control panel, you can't click their checkboxes then exclude the whole bunch - you have to exclude them one by one. A couple posts relating to this topic on their forum have simply gone unanswered. I will watch for updates and upgrade my review when fixes arrive, but for now, I will continue to rely on awstats.
byshiftCase, August 24, 2010
Contact Enhanced Component
I have paid for and struggled with some of the supposed best in the Joomla world. Forget it. Contact Enhanced is the best. I built a very complex form with CE for the very first implementation.

Not only has this component and plug-in done what I couldn't get done with others, the service has been even better. To meet my particular needs, the designer wrote not one, but two patches! They will no doubt be in the next release.

Start where you will end up: right here.