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Thanks for the kind words Frank. In terms of user groups, jUpgrade should port them across to Joomla 1.6. I think there's a bug in the user to group mapping that I need to look into. To take the notes features across I'll need to port the component to 1.6 first :) I haven't had time, nor clients interested in doing that so far, sorry.

Thanks for the quick answer! So is it feasible to design a component which can make use of Artof User in J1.5 and the default ACL in J1.6 at the same time? I see that Kunena does something similar, and wonder how easy it is to do. I'd love to take advantage of Artof User for the upcoming components on our site, but I'd also like to keep our site and all its extensions painless to upgrade in the near future.

Most developers who've released a free extension on the JED once paid to go to school :)

Hi ste and thanks for that comment because I really want to respond to it. I've been-there-done-that with the commercial extension market and while I enjoyed that time, I have absolutely no intention of going back to in the short to medium term. All my extensions that I produce on the Art of Joomla site remain free. I can do this for two reasons:

1. The extension is important to me in delivering content on my sites (eg Artof Editor) so I support them out of a personal need. Actually, all the code for my 1.6 subscriptions component that runs the site is in the public repo and I hope to be able to release that, for free :), one day.

2. The extension has been commissioned by a client and part of the deal I make is that I have permission to release it back to the Joomla community rather than it gathering dust on my hard drive. Artof User, Google Mini, are such examples.

There is a saying that it's one thing to catch a fish for a person, but it's better to teach them to catch their own fish. I'm happy to give extensions away for free, but if you want to learn to how to do it yourself, then you need to pay for it. In that way I can keep the information coming at a sustainable pace rather than doing it in my spare time and in between other work and family duties. I've deliberately kept the prices extremely low. Everyone who has ever developed in Joomla or wants to can afford $33 at some point so they can just top up once or twice a year. Others will see the benefit of the discounted longer subscriptions. I could have charged more, a lot more (for example, I usually charge $275 per seat for an in-person, half day class), but I wanted to keep the prices low enough so that anyone could afford to sign up at least once. Aside from that, nobody else is delivering this kind of material at this level.

I will still maintain a lot of free information on www.theartofjoomla.com but the structured teaching will be done on the learning centre.

I hope this gives you an idea of where my heart is :)

I haven't looked at a CSS version for AAMenu. The client that commissioned that work only uses the JS version of Khepri.

For your naming problems, I think what's happening is that you have a language string which is the same as one of the tags you put in for the extra menus.