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bywickerbill, February 24, 2012
jVoteSystem
This is a very versatile extension for polling data or voting. Installed without problems and updated flawlessly. There are still a few little bugs to be worked out like changing a poll's category after you have created it but I'm sure things like this will be addressed. I have not yet asked for any support as none has been needed. My only problem has to do with language support on their website and I've emailed the author with these concerns. Thanks for a great extension and I hope all that can afford it will support it.
bywickerbill, January 31, 2011
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jView Gallery for SOBI2
This is an excellent plugin to replace the Gallery plugin that comes with Sobi2. I am using this plugin for a business directory. It has nearly all the features of the original plugin and more. You can upload in batch and move to trash in the same tab. One thing I found missing was the vertical alignment of the image icons but a short message on their forums got a quick response, on a Sunday even. Jerry's suggestion worked as I had asked with minimal problems and while I'm not new to Joomla or web development, I don't do CSS well and that where it had to be rectified. Good products backed by good people.
bywickerbill, August 5, 2009
Article-Generator
For those looking to offer news on their website this is the ticket. Automate with a cronjob or use his recommended web address to do it. Both work equally well. We are using it to bring in local news on the hour and it works great. Layout on the Front page or link to a section or category. A multitude of options make your page into a news factory. If you are updating your news from feeds by hand you are working in the dark ages. Support is prompt and very helpful. An excellent component for an excellent price. Thank you!
bywickerbill, August 5, 2009
SEO-Generator
If you are trying to get your web site rankings to go up in any of the major search engines then you must buy this plugin. It is filled with all the options you could wish for and works like magic. It saves so much time and is all automatic. You can also download a blacklist of English or German blacklisted words that the search engines ignore anyway so the only keywords associated with your articles are those that count. It is also very inexpensive for the job it does. Great support too! Thanks for making my life easier.
This plugin along with some server tweaking has cut my site's loading time nearly to 1/3 of the time it was originally taking. My Yslow score has jumped from mid 50s to mid 80s. This is an excellent choice for nearly any website. Good work guys.
bywickerbill, May 3, 2009
GoogleMap
Does everything as advertised and was very easy to install. Because there are several facets to this control it's best to read the well laid out instructions that can be found on the author's site. The only trouble I had was getting it to open zoomed. Instructions say zoom factor of 1-9 but it will accept a higher (and lower) number. I put in a 15 to get to street level.

Good Work!
bywickerbill, May 2, 2009
WeatherMap
This mod is a nice, straight forward addon to anyone's site. I changed the default location to United States and it happily loads a Google map with color based temperatures of prominent cities. Drilling down by the down by the zoom control or simply double clicking it the same a any other Google map and gives more cities and weather summaries. Summaries are clickable to Weatherbonk.com and opens in a separate window/tab. It seems to have a size limit of about 800 x 600 which may be a small draw back. Also it would be nice to be able to allow settings for the type of map it draws (map/satellite/hybrid).

All in all a very nice addition to anyone's site not developing for dialup.