Joomla! March 26, 2006
Posted by cuyler in WordPress.1 comment so far
I’ve looked into another CMS alternative called “Joomla!“. Joomla, like Drupal and WordPress is PHP-based and open-source.
Joomla is a new offshoot of yet another CMS called Mambo. Mambo originally was a commercial product, but then went to open-source. Apparently the folks at the original company felt the Mambo development was going in the wrong direction and in an attempt to get the project under control infuriated their developer team. The old Mambo developers left and formed the new version of Mambo known as Joomla.
After playing with Joomla on OpenSourceCMS, I was very impressed with the slick management interface. It’s an important consideration because I want non-technical people to feel comfortable about updating the site content. But after reading some comparisons to Drupal, my impression is that Drupal may not look as pretty, but it has more flexibility.
