IMHO - The quotes module is one of the most underutilized modules in Scott's arsenal of great products.

We have also used it for testimonials (http://www.jivemg.com/Services/WebSolutions/WebsiteDesign.aspx), promoting random featured articles, and the latest use is to show daily YouTube videos.

If I may take a moment to expound on the later. YouTube not only allows you to grab the code to show a video on your site - they promote it. How cool! Search for videos that are relevant to your site content, place them on your site, and use their bandwidth. When we produce how to videos, we upload them to YouTube and then pull them down using this method. It sure saves on our hosted resources at WebSecureStores. The video object and embed parameteres can also be adjusted to size to your page needs.

Yahoo Video also offers this option.

Here is  a live example:

We are currently using this feature on:

http://www.justnorth.com/Videos.aspx
http://www.justnorth.com/Connections/Fishing.aspx
http://www.justnorth.com/Connections/Hunting.aspx

Refreshing these pages will produce another video. We set these daily videos, using the quotes module, to seven videos at a time (a weeks worth).

The one enhancement, that I would like to see on the quotes module, is an optional paging system. If  we could add a previous and next button to the quotes module, it would be perfect.

Best regards,
Buck

Hi Aviavia,

We have not experienced this problem on several client sites using this method. The positioning of your edit menu icon should still be visible. This method is just rendering the video within the content pane of your module.

Try mousing over the menu, then away, then mouse back over the menu. This is a little trick I have learned when a module is too close to our solpart dropdown menus.

Scott, I just wanted to take a minute to share some more ideas about the quotes module.  First, here is a link to another site of mine where I am using it:

http://www.linqdev.com

If you look at the top of the page, you will see a quote from a reviewer (look for the big comic font).  If you refresh, you should see a different review.  Obviously I am using the module for randomly generating reviews.

I think you should abstract this module a bit...make it more of a randomizer and less quote oriented.  Your templatization is so good, I would like to see you change the tokens from QUOTE and AUTHOR to something more like TOKEN1, TOKEN2, TOKEN3, TOKEN4, ....  I am not sure where it should end.  In some of my uses of the module, I have repeatedly wished it had at least 3 tokens, but the more the better.

Thanks for such a great module!  You can really tell a module is awesome when it can be used for things it wasn't really meant to be.

Is there a way to list all the quotes on one page from the database?  Allow for them to be listed in order added as well as randomized.