No real issues to speak of. They are going to be releasing the new v1.5 sometime soon, but 1.0.11 is the latest stable one, and probably will be the one to go for, even when 1.5 gets released, at least for a few months afterwards anyhow, until they work out all the kinks.
As the old saying goes: "you get what you pay for"
you have no clue.
joomla , xoops , typo3 are used by big corporations on thousands of sites and they're WAY better than some expensive so called "cms" scripts
I have used three full-featured open source CMSes on quite a few sites: PHP Nuke, Joomla, and Drupal.
Avoid PHP Nuke like the plague. It was my first experience with a CMS and a good learning experience, but it's basically run by teenage gamers.
Drupal is great. Very grassroots and easy to get under the hood. Extremely powerful themeing system. Lots of GPL'd modules and bridges with other software.
Joomla is also great. Slicker than Drupal, but can be a little more confusing... but you'll be able to do more without having to touch code. More commercial (as in not free) components than Drupal though, especially for the more complex ones. Way more templates available.
Mambo and joomla are essentially the same, the dev. forked a little while ago, but it seems joomla got most of the developers.
They're ok, but the problem is - the bigger you go, the more limited to their way of doing things you are.
I run a few mambo and joomla installs. They're ok - but they really give me the heebie jeebies
Mambo and joomla are essentially the same, the dev. forked a little while ago, but it seems joomla got most of the developers.
They're ok, but the problem is - the bigger you go, the more limited to their way of doing things you are.
I run a few mambo and joomla installs. They're ok - but they really give me the heebie jeebies
They are not essentially the same - Joomla is simply what Mambo it's called now.
They are not essentially the same - Joomla is simply what Mambo it's called now.
What gives you the heebie jeebies about it?
You're wrong.
Joomla is fork from mambo.
Joomla! came into being as the result of a fork of Mambo between Miro Corporation of Australia, the trademark holder of the Mambo name at that time, and the bulk of the core developers. The two groups parted ways on August 17, 2005.
I am a Drupal and Joomla user - my personal preference is Drupal, but it's not the same kettle of fish. Each has their own powers:
Joomla has a good extensions base, and has great point-and-click ease
Drupal, simply because it doesn't have all the bells-and-whistles, has an API that is much less complicated, so making it into a unique, fully-featured CMS is much much easier.
I use Joomla when I just want to get a site up and content loaded. 5 use Drupal, when a site is worth developing and unleashing its full potential.
If you're not happy getting into the code, then Joomla is for you. If you want to expand and customise a site the way you want, then it's got to be Drupal.
Either way, both have stupid names.
For coding work - hit me up on andy // borkedcoder // com
(consider figuring out the email as test #1)
All models are wrong, but some are useful.George E.P. Box. p202
Can I ask, what do you get out of Gallery2 bridge, that you don't get out of the Image/Folksonomy/Album module setup??
I'm currently developing a gallery site, and I can't see what I would gain by going the mammoth Gallery2 route... plus skinning it is a nightmare.
It is a nightmare, I agree. But I'm a perfectionist. There are a few things in particular that draw me to Gallery:
- I had a custom module developed (will be releasing to the public once I clean it up a little more) to do automatic webcam archiving
- Bells and whistles such as slideshows, configurable permissions, ratings, commenting, automatic watermarking, multiple ways to add images (including my mobile gallery posted right from my PocketPC)
- It also deals well with additional media formats... automatically thumbnails my videos, ID3 tags audio files, etc.
- You can use the shopping cart as an automatic zip file creator... visitors can add any photos/albums to their "cart" and then download the whole thing as a zip file
Basically I've just grown to appreciate the power and flexibility. I can do things like temporarily hide something, allow guests to only view small versions of images, complex sorting, and generally have very fine control over the media.
Gallery 2.2 is going to have flickr-style tagging support and it's expected that taxonomy tagging of Gallery items will be enabled shortly thereafter for Drupal.
I have looked at joomla and am considering using it but I have a question....it appears that it produces dynamic content and since I have a good google PR and such is this going to be a problem for google?
Mike South
It's No wonder I took up drugs and alcohol, it's the only way I could dumb myself down enough to cope with the morons in this biz.
They have SEO optimized plugins for joomla -- you need to know how to use .htaccess but I used it on a recent joomla site I built and the SEO friendly URLs it creates dynamically are great.
If you haven't used it before, joomla can be a bitch to comprehend.
But once you have it down, it makes turning sites out pretty darn easy.
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