[ubuntu-uk] The CMS Debate Continued - Xoops Drupal etc

Sat, 08 Jul 2006 06:41:52 -0700

Yes, I forgot to mention about themes myself. There's hundreds of them and some are obviously better than others. Some even have a small price tag associated to them that may be purer that may suit your needs better. They all come with css files too which you could configure to your liking.

In addition, Xoops uses the Smarty Engine. I think that has quite a lot to do with the tables issue you refer to aswell.  As I said before, Xoops out of the box is not a nice as Drupal etc and you shouldn't let this influence you if possible. It's very powerful and very customizable.

The Xoops homepage is not brilliant and I think they (the developers) acknowledge that. It's not really changed since I first started using it in 2003. I'm not sure why though. It's got about 40,000 users now I think so maybe they don't want to confuse people by changing the way it looks :-)

To give you some examples of sites built with it :

http://www.linux-gamers.net/
http://www.iis-resources.com/
http://astonthemes.com (themes for Xoops)

Not sure if any of that helps?

Ted

On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 03:25 +0100, Steve Smith wrote:
  
Sorry to post three times in a row, but I need to take back something
I've said - Drupal's in tables too!  Not as cluttered with them as
Xoops, in my opinion, but still.  Yet drupal.org itself has brilliant
code, which is what I  looked at before.  Now that site appears to run
on Drupal, so maybe it's a newer version than opensourcecms has.  More
legwork to be done yet...
    

What you my be looking at is simply default theme vs custom theme.
Earlier I said that I didn't like Xoops' HTML, but that of course
depends which theme you're using....
  





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