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I needed a way to load a different template for users of IE6 (which is still unfortunately 20% of my site's visitors).

For the site I'm building, I decided to use a Yootheme template called Studio. Studio doesn't support IE6. So I wanted to load a different Yootheme template, Explorer for IE6 users.

I just purchased MetaTemplate Pro today, I watched the first tutorial video on the MetaTemplate web site, and I was able to create the rule in a matter of minutes.

It works great. I think I do need to change the names of some module positions, however, because some content is not displaying on the Explorer template. That is to be expected, and isn't a problem with MetaTemplate.

Bottom line, it worked great for me and saved me tons of time. Cheers to stephen for a great component :)

This is a good sIFR plugin for J1.5. I originally used it on a site that I was building, but eventually had to replace it with Ninja Super sIFR because it allowed for more styles to be used.

The only problems I had with this plugin was that I needed to use multiple styles of the same font, and as near as I could tell there was no way to use more than one style at a time with this plugin. I actually ended up modifying it and changing the details in the XML file and installing this same plugin twice so I could use two styles on the same site.

The other problem was that on my content headings, it would crop the last 10-30 pixels of the text off, making it unreadable.

Other than that, I was able to get it to work very well. You can't beat the price :), and I'm thankful for developers like this who are making good quality stuff for others to use.

Bottom Line: A very strong component if you don't need a lot of flexibility.

This is by far the best sIFR plugin/component for J1.5 right now, hands down. I needed to use 3 or 4 different styles of a custom font on my site, and another plug-in I tried was very limited in its functionality and oly supported 1 style at a time (without a significant amount of adjustments that I had to make to it). Super sIFR allows for an unlimited amount of seperate styles and fonts so you can have different sizes, colors or fonts for your different header tags or CSS classes, has click-of-a-button options for using it with Content Headings, Component Headings, and Module headings, and you can determine what articles or components you want to use sIFR with. It is so straight forward and simple to use, a caveman could do it :) One thing I found out, is that the component will not function if your server is using PHP4, so you will need to go into your hosting account's cpanel and enable PHP5 (it's super easy, just click the button under the PHP icon). Also, if you switch from PHP 4 to 5, the will rewrite your .htaccess file, which means that if you previously had Search Engine Friendliness activated, you may need to make some adjustments to your .htaccess file to get the Joomla version back. Once I switched to PHP5 it worked flawlessly (besides the small few glitches sIFR always has had in Firefox.) I've tested Super sIFR in IE6, IE7, IE8 beta (using IE Tester), FF3, Chrome, and Safari, and it displayed great in all of them. To get this component, you have to pay $5 to get access to the "Ninja Club" or whatever its called, and it's a recurring monthly charge so be aware, but IMHO, that's dirt cheap for such a high quality plug-in. It saves me lots and lots of time. Note: The version I downloaded (1.1.0) is using sIFR3 build 419, so if you're going to be inserting a custom front that is not included, you will need to use the FLA file from the 419 build at sIFR's home page.