I personally have been using a shoutbox on my club website for quite some time now.
This site is 1.x Joomla site that has been up for little over a year. I have done many changes \ updates throughout that year. This little, simple shoutbox has been performing flawless for that entire time. It is simple to use and has low overhead.
So I have been doing a little research on upgrading that site to Joomla 1.5 and ran across this POST at Compassdesigns. This made the shoutbox part of the upgrade easy as they have a 1.5 version in beta! PERFECT!
Check out below to see the list of features.
New features:
- Add tag to guest posters e.g. [guest_8374]
- Possible to delete messages if you are logged in as admin
- Smilies support is back!
- Simple spam protection
- Possible to change the colors for the fade effect through module parameters
- Language support, default only en-GB is installed
As for the bugs fixes:
- Last post time is displayed even after refresh
- Possible to post if javascript is disabled
- If you hover over a name the time is displayed the message was posted
- and more…
Be sure to check out this shoutbox by RISP if you want to include some basic communication in you 1.5 Joomla website.
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