Re: [ubuntu-uk] Re: Choosing a "CMS"

2006-07-05 Thread Steve Smith
Quick update - I've just had a look at the source that Joomla throws out - the admin menu's javascript in a table, yuk! Drupal source on the other hand is beautiful (well, could do with blank lines and indents, but hey that doesn't affect how it's parsed! -- ubuntu-uk mailing list ubuntu-uk@list

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Re: Choosing a "CMS"

2006-07-05 Thread Steve Smith
On 05/07/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joomla is a fork of Mambo. The original developer team got fed up with Mambo trying to scam money out of users and developers that they all jumped ship together and have been working on Joomla for ages. Ah, I knew there was a fork, but didn't know

[ubuntu-uk] CMSes

2006-07-05 Thread Joseph Price
Has anyone got any advice on the pros and cons of Mambo, Joomla andDrupal?  I need to pick one! Steve     I LOVE drupal. It's extremely powerful. It doesn't have a graphical setup yet like mambo, but simply a matter of uploading files to the server and uploading the database tables.   I've used bo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Re: Choosing a "CMS"

2006-07-05 Thread Robert Schumann
On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 13:46 +0100, Lee Tambiah wrote: > >Has anyone got any advice on the pros and cons of Mambo, Joomla and > >Drupal? I need to pick one! > > There is no right answer for this. I have looked and tried many of the open > source ones in question. Choosing a content managemnt syst

[ubuntu-uk] Re: Choosing a "CMS"

2006-07-05 Thread Lee Tambiah
>Has anyone got any advice on the pros and cons of Mambo, Joomla and >Drupal? I need to pick one! There is no right answer for this. I have looked and tried many of the open source ones in question. Choosing a content managemnt system is determined by what you require your web site to be. For e

[ubuntu-uk] Re: ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 15, Issue 3

2006-07-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I use Xoops (www.xoops.org) for all 3 of my sites (www.lost-doggies.com, www.f3.org.uk and www.chaddesden.org). It was voted 2nd place in the recent 'Best Open Source Project' at Sourceforge 2006 (I forget the exact naming of the voting process). It came to second to Frozen Bubble I think or someth

[ubuntu-uk] CMSes

2006-07-05 Thread Grant
Joomla is a fork of Mambo.  The original developer team got fed up with Mambo trying to scam money out of users and developers that they all jumped ship together and have been working on Joomla for ages.  The joomla team are larger, stronger and are continuing to have a greater release cycl