Episode 9 - AdminPraise Reviewed and Google Gears Support - September 26th, 2008
Friday, 26 September 2008 15:29
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This week Mike takes a look at:

  • The Joomla Extensions Directory having some trouble with scrapers
  • Joomla! Shop has new clothing in stock and a new look--too bad they don't use Joomla for the ecommerce
  • Mike reviews AdminPraise, a new template for the Joomla Control Panels
  • and looks at Turbo Gears for Joomla 1.5, which adds Google Gears support
  • The rant of the week is back: Mike takes the Module Manager to task

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written by Tobias kuhn , September 28, 2008
Virtuemart is not a good e-commerce solution smilies/tongue.gif
Other than that, nice episode!
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written by Kyle Ledbetter , September 28, 2008
Very fair and professional review Mike! We're certainly considering offering AdminPraise as a standalone purchase, along with all of our other templates, those our asking price may be a bit higher than you suggest smilies/wink.gif We tested w/several 3rd party ext (JEvents, JCal, PonyGallery, RSGallery, VirtueMart), but you're right, JCE is a mess in AP smilies/cheesy.gif, we're be working on those bugs and new features now.
-Kyle
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written by Mike B. , September 29, 2008
Hi Tobias, thanks for the comment. What's the reason for your distaste with Virtuemart? To be honest I haven't used it extensively, but I've heard good things. My main point is that I'd love to see Joomla bring everything under one umbrella to show off its power.
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written by Mike B. , September 29, 2008
Kyle, thanks for coming by. I definitely think that AdminPraise could be more than I suggested, but no higher than $50 I'd say.

Glad to hear that you're continuing to work on the template and plan to get it working well with JCE, it's such a widely used editor that compatibility is almost a necessity.
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written by Carson , November 30, 2008
From what I can tell, VirtueMart is the best ecommerce solution available for Joomla. It seems to work pretty well out of the box, but once you start to play with it a bit, it can get pretty finicky. Getting it to work and look the way we want it has become enough of a headache that we try to avoid it now, but there aren't really any good alternatives.
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written by Mike Brogan , December 02, 2008
@Carson, so if you avoid it, what do you do? I've used ShopSite and that works pretty well with it's OrderAnywhere feature.
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