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K.Mandla
April 8th, 2006, 10:24 PM
We're thinking about transferring the Web site of one of our daughter publications to a content manager system, rather than keep someone on hand to peck away at code.

Our only real requirements are that it be free (because the publication is on the rocks anyway, financially speaking) and that it be manageable in a month-to-month manner (because the magazine only comes out every other month).

Has anyone used Mambo or Joomla? Do they seem suited to this idea? Is there another CMS that might better fit our purpose?

Thanks in advance.
claydoh
April 8th, 2006, 10:34 PM
http://www.opensourcecms.com/
has demos of quite a few CMS sytems. It's a good place because thee are soo many systems out there it can be difficult to choose, but joomla/Mambo, or Xoops can probably do what you are looking for, and have pretty decent communities.
Carlos Araujo
April 8th, 2006, 10:34 PM
We're thinking about transferring the Web site of one of our daughter publications to a content manager system, rather than keep someone on hand to peck away at code.

Our only real requirements are that it be free (because the publication is on the rocks anyway, financially speaking) and that it be manageable in a month-to-month manner (because the magazine only comes out every other month).

Has anyone used Mambo or Joomla? Do they seem suited to this idea? Is there another CMS that might better fit our purpose?

Thanks in advance.

Joomla!
Rikostan
April 8th, 2006, 10:34 PM
http://e107.org

Awesome, awesome CMS with a great community.
dermotti
April 8th, 2006, 10:41 PM
I second e107! Its awesome. My site is currently running off it: http://www.xorg.us
Rikostan
April 8th, 2006, 11:23 PM
I second e107! Its awesome. My site is currently running off it: http://www.xorg.us

I thought so... I just checked your site out when I was doing a little research about xubuntu. :)
I am not very involved with that community anymore due to time restrictions, but I used to help mod the boards there a couple of years ago and I have been running it since version .5 or so.
IYY
April 8th, 2006, 11:48 PM
I think Joomla is what you want. I haven't used it, but I have used Mambo and from what I understand it's just a less comercialized and more open version of it.

Very easy to use.
MenZa
April 9th, 2006, 03:13 AM
One word: Drupal (http://www.drupal.org).
majikstreet
April 10th, 2006, 04:40 PM
One word: Drupal (http://www.drupal.org).
drupal is cool.

so is mambo.
so is e107.
so is joomla.
so is xoops.
so is phpnuke.

http://www.opensourcecms.com like someone said and test out all of the cmses and figure out which one is best for YOU. (it's like a linux distro :D)
KingBahamut
April 10th, 2006, 05:56 PM
Actually, Joomla will even be better via release 1.1.x , This is largely because the Devs are going to shed any Mambo compatibility with its release. Right now , they are placating the Mambo community with their releases, but once Joomla releases 1.1 I think it should be a very exciting time.
luca.b
April 11th, 2006, 10:04 AM
I wouldn't recommend either of the two CMSes. Their core functionality may be solid (not always the case), but a lot of the extensions are alpha quality at best.
MenZa
April 11th, 2006, 10:27 AM
drupal is cool.
so is phpnuke.

I highly dislike phpnuke. It's barely moddable, its community is poor - and support is limited.

I'd define phpnuke as a bad CMS.
KingBahamut
April 11th, 2006, 10:35 AM
I highly dislike phpnuke. It's barely moddable, its community is poor - and support is limited.

I'd define phpnuke as a bad CMS.

I define any of the phpnuke, and its nuke alternatives as never appealeing to me personally, Menza.
majikstreet
April 11th, 2006, 01:27 PM
I used to play with phpnuke.. I saw nothing wrong with it.. But I'm not talking about a real site or anything..
KingBahamut
April 11th, 2006, 01:56 PM
phpnuke vulnerability - Results 1 - 10 of about 479,000 for phpnuke vulnerability. (0.28 seconds)

joomla vulnerability - Results 1 - 10 of about 170,000 for joomla vulnerability. (0.28 seconds)

xoops vulnerability - Results 1 - 10 of about 135,000 for xoops vulnerability. (0.13 seconds)

e107 vulnerability - Results 1 - 10 of about 65,600 for e107 vulnerability. (0.25 seconds)

ovidentia vulnerability - Results 1 - 10 of about 529 for ovidentia vulnerability. (0.40 seconds)

Seems Ovidentia might win. =)
ember
April 11th, 2006, 03:21 PM
interesting way to interpret statistics ;)

By the way, I'd recommend Joomla - it has high quality templates. Yet I'm not familiar with e107 - maybe one find's them there, too.
majikstreet
April 11th, 2006, 03:23 PM
never heard of Ovidentia *googles*
KingBahamut
April 11th, 2006, 04:14 PM
Actually a really interesting CMS is Jaws. Has a weird webcam thingy.
curuxz
April 11th, 2006, 04:41 PM
Having tried ALL of the main ones personaly, partly because I like cms systems but mostly because its my job to do stuff like that lol, I recommend and use (all be it a highly customised version) of Joomla, and have found the others to be flawed in many areas, while jom is not fullproof its defo the best.
K.Mandla
April 11th, 2006, 05:48 PM
Actually a really interesting CMS is Jaws. Has a weird webcam thingy.
That's good to know. I hate to think it, but that might be a contributing factor.