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 system is determined by > what you require your web site to be. For example a blog, would work better > on Wordpress rather than Joomla as it is its main role and purpose. Really > you need to research into what each plaftorm offers you, and choose the on > that fits your needs best. > > They are ALL good!! > > Joomla can be hard to change and customise in comparison with Drupal. It is > true that Joomla has flashy looks out of the box, but dont let this influence > your final decision. Drupal on the other hands supplies you with simple > templates which can easily be hacked and changed, and rebuilt. Someone who > doesnt like to get there hands dirty in the code maybe better off with > Joomla. There is a site called "The Onion" which is an website built using > the Drupal CMS, this is a fine example of the flexible customisation you can > make with Drupal. >
Drupal styles itself as a Web Application Framework, meaning that it allows you to write apps for the web without doing the basic legwork of user registration and things like that, and making it easy to drop in themes, plugins, etc. This application basis makes it useful for both basic, out-of-the-box websites as well as custom pull-data-from-MySQL-and-fillet-it jobs. Perhaps a bit of a learning curve if you just want a basic website, but your effort will be rewarded if you ever plan to do it again. Mambo/Joomla do look good, and also have nice admin features. I found Xoops to be very open source (read: kind of chaotic). In particular, the plugins and themes I looked at were often of poor quality and I don't think I was very impressed with the markup produced by native Xoops - but this is from playing with it more than a year ago. Robert. -- ubuntu-uk mailing list ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
