Mambo or Joomla or ... ?

[K.Mandla]

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]

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]

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]

http://e107.org

Awesome, awesome CMS with a great community.

[dermotti]

I second e107! Its awesome. My site is currently running off it: http://www.xorg.us

[Rikostan]

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]

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]

One word: Drupal.

[majikstreet]

One word: Drupal.

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 )

[KingBahamut]

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.