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spike1968

Reviews(8)
 
byspike1968, March 7, 2013
Virtuemart Search Autocomplete plugin
Had a couple of issues to start, but once I had played with settings works perfectly. Forum is also answered and found responses to questions which helped solve my issue. Very Impressed.
byspike1968, June 26, 2012
RD JAccordion
Having tried so many of these over the years, I am often let down. This is NOT one of those extensions. This does what it says it will do.

In chrome it works beautifully and and also in safari, firefox and rockmelt. IE9 which is often the problem browser just has a slight difference and as we know IE doesn't interpret code properly anyway.

Today I paid a tenner for a another extension that didn't work and yet this one works perfectly and is free.

I would gladly have paid for this.

Keep up the good work, your website is bookmarked.
byspike1968, January 31, 2012
JE Ajax Article Search
Having used Joomla and extensions for many years, I thought I was immune to buying the poor extension. Not the case.

If you want a drop down menu that selects All categories and articles including uncategorised then this will do the job for you. But unlike the description 'chosen section/category' you cannot choose the category or section and it won't split the categories and sub categories in 1.7. Even the basic module options don't display, so you can't add a module class suffix. Which restricts design and layout options.

So I decide to contact support, this extension when purchased includes one months support; having asked a support question I am still waiting a response almost 24 hours later and according to their support manager my ticket hasn't even been assigned yet. They are an Indian company so with time differences they may not have been able to deal with it yesterday, but when I started work today it was already 2pm in India and they don't have a national holiday now until the 5th Feb, so they have had time.

Now I have the ability to fix the issues and amended the code to make it do what I want, but I shouldn't have to do so and a novice will find it hard, and you would expect that from a free extension.

Conclusion: If you want to show all categories and have no design needs then this is fine and worth the $9. If you want it to do what is says in the description then don't part with your money or waste your time. As for the included monthly support I am still waiting for that to happen.
byspike1968, December 16, 2011
Cook Self Service
This is excellent, not quite ready for what I wanted to develop but even so it is beautifully thought out with excellent tutorials. I can't wait to see what they add to it, I will be watching this one very closely in the future.
If it achieves it's potential then I will become a platinum member.
byspike1968, September 1, 2011
OSOLCaptcha
Perfect works what more can I say
byspike1968, February 7, 2011
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SJ K2 Slideshow II
At last a K2 module that does what it promises, I have tried loads and this is the only one that is actually compatible with most browsers.

A few configuration issues, but once I played worked like a dream it took me no longer 30 minutes.

Support lacking on forum still no response to my query, but it was a cheap module and well worth the money.

Why oh why did I not get this one first
Owner's reply

Dear spike1968

We improved submit tickets and Live Chat. We are sure that you will always have quick solutions in the next time

Thank you very much

byspike1968, January 26, 2011
VTEM K2 Show
They claim it works in IE6+... firefox etc... the only browser where it's perfect is chrome... they have not tested fully in IE8,7 or 6 or firefox otherwise they would know they have problems...

Nothing from these guys seems to work, and I have followed their instructions to the letter, I even disabled all other jquery/mootools components and still won't work in two of the most used browsers.

Very frustrating and worse still I had to pay...
Owner's reply

If you have problems please post on our forum.
we'll help you fix that problem.
thank you.

byspike1968, January 23, 2011
VTEM K2 Boxs
I test in firefox and chrome, yet I would expect that any extension would work in IE8... Unfortunately this one does not, I cannot recommend this product until this is fixed and it' a major fix....
Owner's reply

Our products are tested on IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari ...
If you encounter an error due to conflict with your template or extension. Please sign up and post on our forums and we'll help you fix it.
thank you.