What is the best CMS to the new UbuntuGames site?

[jmonteiro]

Hello,

As everybody (or some ppl) have voted in this poll (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=83800), I (and the community, for sure) will be mounting the new UbuntuGames website! It will have tons of reviews, tips, how to's, everything updated with the games runneable in Ubuntu (not only free software or freeware games; CD games and proprietary games will have their space too!).

Now I would like to know: what is the best CMS to use in the site? Please only vote if you have experience and/or knowledge about the CMS's.

I would like to call PHP programmers to help me out with modules; and webdesigner/artists to make some grafics for the site :smile:.

[jmonteiro]

I prefere Drupal, since I have experience administrating it. I am testing Joomla right now, and learning how do it works (even I have some experience using an old version of Mambo some time ago in the past :)).

[stuporglue]

I have experience with Mambo and Geeklog. My site (stuporglue.com) runs Mambo. I installed it just before the Joomla switch.

My experience has been that Mambo is kind of bloated and not very intuitive to use. It works ok though, and has lots of nice plug ins and templates.

Geeklog is very nice. I'm currently setting it up for our UUG. It's nice and light, and seems more responsive. It's permissions are more granular too, which I think is important on bigger sites. It's file layout also seems more logical, and thus easier to customize.

My $.02

[jmonteiro]

I have experience with Mambo and Geeklog. My site (stuporglue.com) runs Mambo. I installed it just before the Joomla switch.

My experience has been that Mambo is kind of bloated and not very intuitive to use. It works ok though, and has lots of nice plug ins and templates.

Geeklog is very nice. I'm currently setting it up for our UUG. It's nice and light, and seems more responsive. It's permissions are more granular too, which I think is important on bigger sites. It's file layout also seems more logical, and thus easier to customize.

My $.02

Hum, Geeklog seems interesting. Our site, UbuntuGames, will have:

How to's organized by games
Profile pages for each game (with screenshots, tips, and stuff like that)
Search engine for the games Do you think it would be nice to use Geeklog with it?
Between Mambo/Joomla and Drupal, I prefere Drupal since it is not too bloated and have a lot of permission options.

[stuporglue]

I'd go with Geeklog over Mambo. That's just my personal opinion though -- I am the webmaster for our Unix Users Group, and I have run my own server with success, but I am not an expert, so I might be overlooking other issues.

Between Geeklog and Drupal. I'd probably find our who's going to do the administration and see their preference. I've looked at Drupal, but never actually tried it out, so I can't give a good reccomendation. I know both are widely use, and both can probably do the job just fine.

[PriceChild]

I use Mambo and love it...

I thought i'd researched most of them when i made the site.... but seems not by some of the others coming out here :)

Pricey

EDIT

Ecstatic to see something might be getting done about this! :)

[Zodiac]

You have to use Textpattern... it is sooo money. You will love it.

Peep this...

http://textdrive.com/

http://textpattern.com/

[banjobacon]

Why not make it a wiki?

[Sykil]

Drupal!

[Hansers]

Drupal!

I second that. I certainly would recomend Drupal. A lot cleaner under the hood, which would make the site easier to develop and expand. Its flexible and powerfull taxonomy would be great to keep track of different games, reviews, hints, howto's etc.

They have a great and helpfull community!

[william_nbg]

As a server admin and web designer I've used Mambo several times and think it has one of the best template managers. I've recently used Limbo, an ultra light version of Mambo, it's new a I have found a few small bugs in it, but it's lightweight and very fast.

[jatos]

Currently I use my own scripts to run my sites, but if looking for a good prepackaged CMS i say go for Mambo:

[jaddison]

As everybody (or some ppl) have voted in this poll (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=83800), I (and the community, for sure) will be mounting the new UbuntuGames website! It will have tons of reviews, tips, how to's, everything updated with the games runneable in Ubuntu (not only free software or freeware games; CD games and proprietary games will have their space too!).

Now I would like to know: what is the best CMS to use in the site? Please only vote if you have experience and/or knowledge about the CMS's.

I would like to call PHP programmers to help me out with modules; and webdesigner/artists to make some grafics for the site :smile:.

From a technical standpoint, I like prefer Drupal over other CMS solutions, but I wouldn't count the others out. For me, Drupal has a simplicity that just works. I use it on a couple of sites.

As far as the idea of an UbuntuGames site, all power to you... but I still feel that this is further fragmentation of GNU/Linux in general. It's a free world, but catering to one particular distribution doesn't necessarily help in the long run.

That said, I would love to see reviews of games that run on the GNU/Linux platform. I think it would be great if a game review listed the distribution used for reviewing the game, but also had a method to allow other users to mention what other distributions and hardware combinations the game works on, and what steps they needed to follow to acheive that goal.

The focus could be on Ubuntu, I suppose, but I think it's important to include other distributions as well. This isn't intended to start a "flamewar"; it's intended to hopefully provide some insight and a potentially worthwhile opinion. At the very least, I hope it starts some constructive conversation.

That's my two cents (Canadian, so it's not worth that much, right? ;)) Take it as you will.

[Zodiac]

Textpattern.

Why would you go with something like Drupal or Mambo which is so intensive and huge?

You want something light and easy... Textpattern dude.

[mpettitt]

Out of the choices in the poll, I'd go with Joomla, but have a play on http://www.opensourcecms.com/ and get a feel for a few before choosing.

[VR6Pete]

I've always used e107 0.7 in the past.

[mglukhovsky]

I'm going to throw another name into the mix and mention Xoops (http://www.xoops.org/). I've had experience with a lot of the big CMS's out there (i.e. Mambo, now known as Joomla! and Drupal to name a few) and nothing has impressed me an worked so well out of the box as Xoops has. Not only does it offer a *vast* array of features, but it also has a LOT of add-ons and amazing community support. It's fully modularized, and is open source- nothing's easier to hack than a Xoops module. Themes are widespread and easy to create, and it's got a solid and *very* fast core. I'd advise you to try it out, throw it onto a XAMPP installation (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html) along with a few other worthy CMS's and see what works best for you.

[Pete ZaHutt]

I've had success with Mambo and have just switched to Joomla.

[charlieg]

To be honest, I think what you can discern from this thread and from open source CMS advocary in general is that there is no single standout choice.

All the CMS systems are good, and each will have their strong points. It comes down to just choosing one, any one, and getting started. The sooner you get started, the sooner it will be done. Getting bogged down in polls and discussions on which CMS to run is frankly besides the point. Just make sure whatever you choose supports the core features you require then get cracking - time waits for nobody.