This, by far, is my favorite Portfolio extension. Comprehensive options - as others said, it does take a little while to sort out the parameters, since there's no documentation about the specifics and the developer's forums are down... however, the amount of display options you have with this component is amazing. (To be fair, there are handy video tutorials on the developers site, but they don't cover some of the more elusive details and a few bug issues).

One of the best things about this extension, that I've not yet seen in any others, is that this one also keeps in mind that not everyone who has a portfolio to show off, is solely rooted in still images. This one allows you to display video and audio as well (.mov, flv, .mp3 and more). To get this to work with JW Player properly, make sure to switch the "Display media files" setting for the item/category's image handling.

A previous time I tried to install this extension about a year ago, I had the same problem others here mentioned regarding images not showing up... however, installing it this week, the extension generally works fine. It seems to be the same version of the extension I installed last time,so I'm not sure what the issue was... it works now.

My only "complaints" are also things others touched upon already (but I'm going to clarify some things) - 1. the sort order settings do not work from the backend and there is no known fix. Currently, each new item you add automatically will be displayed towards the bottom of the page - newest, last. 2. The search plug-in only picks up on words in the actual description and the title. It will not return results for other fields such as technology or client - so if those things are what you feel people will search for, you'll currently have to mention those related keywords in the description. In the future, I hope to see this extension include all related fields in the search, the sorting/ordering fixed, and perhaps a sort function that defaults to the newest items displayed first.

With all that said, I STILL rate this extension pretty high, for the number of things it does right, and the fact that it's free, and has saved me countless hours of time. I have images, audio and video in my body of work, and I've never quite found a tidy, sensible way to display all three media types in a portfolio, without spending months re-doing it after a change of some kind... that is, until now. This is EXACTLY what I was looking for.

If the developer fixes the small bugs, I mentioned, this would be a near-perfect extension and one worth paying for.

I have tried most of the forms components available on Joomla Extensions, both free and commercial. This is the only one where I didn't run into problems. The installation and configuration is simple, the options pretty straightforward, nice-looking interface with good features, like tooltips, choices of file extensions for file attachments and more... and it works!

Without reading any documentation, I was able to play with it for a few minutes and get a basic form soon after. The basics of what you need to know is if you plan to use it for multiple forms in different areas of the site, you might first make categories for the forms. From there, make one or more templates - the templates aren't merely layout elements, they're where you'll set up your input fields. After that, creating the form is merely choosing a title, assigning an email address, which template to use, and what text to display. You use the built-in tools to link your form to whatever menu you want, and you're good to go.

I would consider this one 100% perfect if there were more options for alignment (I notice that I have to make large input fields in order to eliminate large gaps between the question and the answer.) You can do some adjustments, however, out of the box, and folks like myself may be able to do more through CSS. If it had a multiple page option, that would be excellent, too, but as is, this component is a great option, that does not cause any headaches.

I thank the creators for making this available.

I downloaded this extension, because it was the first of its type which seemed to have the ability to be installed and put to use quickly. I was not disappointed in the least.

This thing installed and was running in literally less than 5 minutes. It is broken down into both a component and a plug in. Activated the plug-in and then went into the Components area. Selected "Item," created a new Item, put in the relative URLs of both the page I was re-directing from and the one being re-directed to. Hit Save... typed in the old link... and it immediately worked.

In my situation, it was a case of having re-named a page that I'd already given potential clients links to. I needed a quick fix to avoid them running into 404 pages. ReDJ did the trick, instantly.

Music Collection is one of those Extensions, I've longed to build or see built for a few years now. The developer has created a good-looking, versatile, functional tool, which also is very easy to use. It is one of the few commercial extensions that I not only found interesting enough to purchase (for my needs, anyway), but which has not disappointed in the least, afterwards. It's also one of those rare extensions, in which the developer seems to have left few stones unturned, when designing and coding. It's usable right out of the box, and really seems to leave very little left to be desired.

Though designed primarily for those who wish to display their music collection, I've found that with very little customization, it also suits the needs of a label or artist, to display a catalog of material and samples. Samples are played in an embedded Flash MP3 player which appears every time that particular song is listed and the albums themselves automatically pull all relevant album tracks into a "master" player, so that the full album can be previewed in one shot. It comes with a great player, but you also have the ability to swap it out for the compatible player of your choice.

Music Collection comes with a great variety of options from frontend display styles, customizable genres, types, and more. It also allows you to write reviews/info for each album and/or artist, allow your users to preview each track, plus get additional detailed information for each track and album. This also includes things like catalog number, release date, price, and much more. There's even a place to input lyrics for display!

There are also built-in search and browsing features, plus some "smart" functions, requiring only minimal effort - Music Collection easily makes the connections between related artists, albums that are part of a box set, and it also recognizes subgenres that are the same between one master genre and another. An example in that case would be... if you have a genre Rock ->Pop ->Brit Pop and you also have a genre Soundtracks ->Modern Rock ->Brit Pop, an album search would correctly yield appropriate results for any Brit Pop searches. And you have full use of keywords and tags. The search does not yet include lyrics at the time of this writing, but I believe this is on the way, as are other things.

Music Collection also comes with access to customizable modules such as "Random Album" and "Top Rated Album," the latter of which you can choose by genre or artist, if you desire. And you can also implement SEO extensions to make your links much more search engine-friendly.

Music Collection also has its own forum, where you can ask questions, make suggestions, or access straightforward documentation, which is steadily being added and reveals even more hidden tricks and features. The creator is very user-friendly and actually has answered my questions rather quickly, and taken my few suggestions seriously. He's also been very much on the ball with updating on when new modules are available, and the downloads are easy. You also have access to the modules and the extension itself, through your account... indefinitely, should you ever need to re-install again.

That's all I can think of at the moment. If your site involves albums or singles, I can't think of any better way to implement it into your Joomla site than this.