Hi -
Okay, that was a lot of hours spent uninstalling the other Shoutbox/Guestbook MOD and then installing this MOD ... and doing my diligence by slowly going through all 17 pages of posts.
Thank all of you for your efforts to support the MOD and help everyone. At the end of the day, I don't really see the usefulness of this MOD. The other MOD was more like an instant message personal communication MOD while this MOD is much more like a guestbook where everyone leaves their shouts. I guess it could be useful if people had errors to report or suggestions or issues but I'm not sure how useful it is unless it was just pasted in the home.html code and there are too many other MODS competing for space there.
What would be great is if the MOD allowed people to make separate comments about each category ... so you could make comments about category A and then a comment about Category B and those comments would only be visible in their respective Category displays. As it is, the comments are visible on every category page, if you posted the template code on the categories.html page. Likewise, if you posted the template code on the member.html page, you would see everyone's shouts no matter what or who they applied to so that doesn't seem to useful.
With some of the lingering issues of the search box error messages, it seems like this MOD is just way too complicated and sensitive to be very valuable, in my opinion.
So I undid it all.
I would love to hear other people's thoughts on why they like this MOD or how they find it useful.
We have a separate forum on our website so it seems logical for people to post their questions and concerns in our gallery forum instead of this guestbook format. And ... with the format, it is hard to respond if someone posts a 'shout' so to speak.
Thanks again for everyone's dedication to helping each other here and throughout the 4images forum.
Brian