First of all, I have to say that what you have built with HotSpots is very very good. I am impressed with what you have done and am very fond of some the functionality that the current version has. I think you are building a great product for the future and will more than likely purchase from you in the future if some of the issues I have personally experienced have been worked out.

I am so very disappointed about the dramatic limitations of how I can utilize the map on my site. Since I cannot place one of these maps anywhere except on a menu link, that means I can have no other content on the page except the map and whatever modules are loading on the same page. All of the content of my site becomes the map and I am unable to use it in any other way. The map should be able to be an accessory to my site content and not define the content of the entire page (site).

I have tried everything to make this work within the confines of the extension with absolutely no luck. I have tried a number of 3rd party apps that force inclusion of the component but it looks like something is stripping out the scripts and it crashes the site.

My frustration is further expanded by the fact that in the forum as far as 16 months ago there is mention of a module/plugin being developed and yet there is nothing in the new build that even resembles it. Is there really such a thing planned or is it still in the drawing board phase? For the $50 price tag, you should be a little more upfront with the actual development and delivery of updates. Such blatant honesty (good or bad) will only attract more devoted followers – myself included.

Another frustrating issue is that there are a number of posts asking how other people have integrated it into their site and the response is "look around the forum. There are many people that are using it." Where? The forum section Sites made with our extensions has not had a post in it in over a year.......?

I have a tourism based destination site with over 400 local and regional advertisers and this type of application/component is something I would be very happy spending twice your current price, if it allowed me to integrate it into my site, versus replace what I have as content. It is something I desperately want for my site, my visitors, and my advertisers, but unless I can get it loaded in a module, it does not work for me at all.

Please do not think I am bashing you or what you have done. Again, I am very impressed with where it is so far. I am just not able to see how it fits – as currently developed – into a site where it does not dominate the content. At this point I am considering asking for my money back but I wanted send all of this to you and get your comments/thoughts/suggestions before doing so.

Sincerely,

Corky M.