Kanuri, Seshu (Company IT) wrote:
There was some discussion in the past about which one is the best
Content Management System that can be used in conjunction with Asterisk.
Mambo was supposed to be the best out there under GPL. The guys who
developed Mambo have a new product now - Joomla. I am using this and it
appears to be better than Mambo in many respects. Read the gist about
Joomla below.
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If you've read anything at all about Content Management Systems (CMS),
you'll probably know at least three things: CMS are the most exciting
way to do business, CMS can be really, I mean really, complicated and
lastly Portals are absolutely, outrageously, often unaffordably
expensive.
Joomla! is set to change all that ... Joomla! is different from the
normal models for portal software. For a start, it's not complicated.
Joomla! has been developed for the masses. It's licensed under the
GNU/GPL license, easy to install and administer and reliable. Joomla!
doesn't even require the user or administrator of the system to know
HTML to operate it once it's up and running.
http://www.joomla.org/
I spent a few days installing and test-driving several CMS and mambo won
out. I was looking for one that would work well at least as a temporary
solution for new small biz websites. So far the only upgrade has been
the installation of an alternative WYSIWYG editor which I found via the
mamboforge site. I downloaded lots of templates before I found one I
liked. One must-have feature for me is a simple "contact us" page. mambo
has that out of the box. I also like the pdf, print and email buttons
being there. I found it easy enough to login as admin and quickly
disable things not needed by the typical starter SOHO website. I
definitely will be trying joomla soon.
Note that my evaluations were oriented towards a specific audience. Some
of the other CMS packages probably are better for blogging, wikis,
forums and so on. I just wanted to select a good CMS that will work on
low cost self-service hosting. It worked on the $3.95/month starter
account and works fine on everything I use above that including in-house
servers.
Final note is that none of these packages and none of the commercial
website builder tools I have tried look like they are noob-friendly
enough. many of them will need an affordable startup support option or
they will get too frustrated.
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