Joomla OR Mambo

[deconstruction]

looking for a nice and easy cms to use for a few sites i am putting up.

can people let me know which they rate and why

 

[mowd]

I found Joomla easy to setup and it has a lot of good plugins developed for it.

 

[rjs_essex]

looking for a nice and easy cms to use for a few sites i am putting up.

can people let me know which they rate and why

They are one and the same. Mambo is the original CMS - the development team split and the developers that left began development on Joomla which just built on the core code of Mambo.

The problem with Mambo is that it is beginning to die out, Joomla has taken over. There are hundreds if not thousands of extensions available for Joomla but very few are being developed for Mambo anymore...

Joomla has a vast support community that should be able to help with any problems you may encounter.

Thats about my 2p - I use Joomla and am using it at the moment working on a pretty big site.

Rich

 

[retired_member16]

I tend to agree to Rich - as Joomla rose from the ashes of Mambo you tend to think it _should_ be better.

However I have not used Mambo, so cant state that is 100% the case.

Joomla is easy enough once you get the hang of it although there are still a few fiddy bits and pieces that have you pulling your hair out.

 

[GreyWing]

RocketThemes was recomended by other members on here and I if anyone is to use Joomla, use these for your templates.

My Adsense shot through the roof with their templates.

 

[Benny]

Gonna go with Jommla on this one, the amount of extensions available is amazing, it can really open up on the standard CMS.

 

[teampower]

love joomla more plugging and easy

 

[Daniablo]

I love joomla, its great.

 

[tifosi]

Question whether you REALLY need the full complexity of a CMS. Wordpress with some of the newer non-blog style templates do the job. And Wordpress 2.5 is a pretty good cms in it's own right with masses of plugins.

S

 

[swanchris]

Joomla rules

I've been using Joomla for the last 12 months, its the first time i've used an 'off the shelf' solution for website CMS and i cant fault it

 

[aZooZa]

Tifosi has a good point about WordPress which is so very easy to set up, but Joomla is best for a full CMS, IMHO.