Filmering.at

Filmering.at is an austrian movie-website. We offer news, videos, reviews and a community for movie-fans.

What were the site requirements?

We already had a lot of editor reviews, so we needed a very flexible user-review system that could interact with the editor reviews, which are written in the standard Joomla content system. We also wanted a system that worked with JomSocial, so that the users would have a complete experience on our site and wouldn't see that all components are separate.

Why was JReviews chosen?

It is by far best review system for Joomla. We tried it and we saw that it is an amazing component that gives us a lot of opportunities. We wanted just a simple component for user-reviews, that also displays the reviews of the user in the JomSocial profile, but we found out that JReviews has a lot more things to offer. The great modules, the favorite system, the integration with the activity stream of JomSocial and the whole new design opportunities for our movie sites. And very soon we also found out that the support is simply awesome (no Joomla component has anything compared to the support of JReviews). For this reasons we decided to integrate JReviews even further in our website.

How is JReviews being used on the site?

We use JReviews as the user-review system for movies and as an supplemental feature to our editor reviews. Also we use the great features of the JReviews modules. In short, everytime when we list movies in a module position we use the JReviews modules which are very flexible and beautiful. We also use JReviews to enhance the community features of our website. We modified the favorite system a little bit to a Fan system, and in the profiles of the users we show there user reviews and the movies they are a fan of. The JReviews template system allows us a very flexible output of the modules and profile plugins. Also we developed a "Fans also are Fans of" module which shows which movies are also favorited by users who are a fan of the movie. This allows us a better visual style of our movie sites. We also use the advanced search of JReviews and we use a lot JReviews functions for our movie-archive.

What are the key advantages of using JReviews for your website or business?

JReviews gives us a very flexible system for our movie site. The system is flexible enough to work for all kind of review sites and with the help of the great support, customization is possible in all possible ways. JReviews gives us opportunities to improve the quality of our website in a dimension that no other Joomla component is capable of. Everyone who wants to offer reviews in any kind of way should use JReviews.