Mambo or Joomla

I have recently started to roll out these CMS's to schools who want an up and running website that is easy to maintain. The nice thing about them is just that. The crap thing is that there doesn't seem to be an easy way "yet" to prevent the general public from registering as a user with your site, or setting various security levels to groups in the front-end/general public.

Of all the various Content Management Systems I have tried out, Joomla is by far the easiest to setup, operate, and give a crisp professional feel to it. If you are going to set up an interactive website, use Joomla.

Aside from that though, I will link to the two sites that have been cookie-cut with these solutions once they are completed.

Apparently over the last couple of months there was a shake down between Mambo programmers. This caused the birth of the Mambo foundation and Joomla. From what I gather, Mambo has been (or is going to be) completely rewritten and is now set out to make money from their efforts (nothing wrong with that). The programmers devoted to the OS ideologies have continued on as Joomla.

**Update 31/1/06
Some of what I wrote here is innacurate now. Here is a link to a more recent rundown of the dispute between Mambos parent company Miro International, and the old developers who have forked in to Joomla.

I know that as an implementor for low-budget organizations, I will continue to stay with the original code which has worked well in the past.

**Update 31/1/06
Hmmmm.... without the same sort of funding going to joomla, I wonder if they'll be able to keep up in terms of their rebuilding efforts and whether or not an ecommerce aspect will come of it etc.

http://www.joomla.org


This information may also be of use on Joomla's site:

http://www.joomla.org/index.php?Itemid=44&option=com_faq&catid=7

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