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Open source Mambo CMS succeeds admirably (NewsForge)

[Posted March 24, 2005 by cook]

NewsForge reviews Mambo, an open-source web content management system. "Mambo is not a portal-oriented CMS. You can use it to run a portal, of course, but Mambo is much more versatile. In fact, Mambo is targeted at the corporate market. All content pages are dynamically generated from a MySQL database. The look of a Web site running on Mambo is defined by a template. Three templates are provided with Mambo, and there are many free templates that you can use, which you can find at sites such as MamboHut and MamboPortal."

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Typo.

Posted Mar 24, 2005 16:29 UTC (Thu) by GreyWizard (guest, #1026) [Link]

"NewsForge reviews Manbo,"

s/Manbo/Mambo/

Why make evrything "dynamically generated from a MySQL database"

Posted Mar 24, 2005 22:55 UTC (Thu) by erich (subscriber, #7127) [Link]

Actually it should be a lot better if most of the data is just statically stored in files on the server.
Hopefully you will have more people visiting your site than you update it...

Dynamic vs. Static

Posted Mar 25, 2005 1:10 UTC (Fri) by socket (guest, #43) [Link]

While the parent's argument may seem a little odd, it makes some sense. On the topic of CMSes, this is a good time to mention that at least one CMS (Bricolage) is designed with a highly dynamic content-development website that is used to generate static content for the site you show to the rest of the world.

Best of both worlds, really. There's no sense in having something highly dynamic if it's going to generate the same stuff when given the same URL, time after time. Caching is good, but making as much static as possible is even better. It means your web server environments don't have to be quite so complicated, besides. Content management needs to be dynamic (in some sense, at least) but content *display* doesn't.

Meanwhile, I recently had a change of heart. Google has managed to convince me that javascript and DHTML might not be a total lost cause. I think I'm not alone on that... and besides, the ability of the browsers to modify the page in complex ways changes the balance of power. (Note the adblock extension for Firefox.)

The web is changing. Isn't it cool?

Open source Mambo CMS succeeds admirably (NewsForge)

Posted Mar 26, 2005 9:08 UTC (Sat) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link]

Oh no. Are Newsforge folks right after that Jason Miller guy with forkbomb jaw-dropping news? Mambo will be somewhere closer to "corporate market" when it learns how to reflect site structure in navigation and not force site maintainers to construct and update that by hand. Though it can fit nicely small (and never-ever-growing-really-up) sites.

While evaluating the next CMS to use last year, we've come out with eZ Publish, TYPO3 and Drupal being the finalists (Xaraya somehow fell off, don't remember the details, and Java-based CMSes weren't considered an option).

Since then, we're quite happy with TYPO3 -- it has quite a learning curve as told on the website, but then it just pays and pays and... my colleague recently was literally crying in joy for that choice. :)

So it's like choosing your next text editor when you realize mcedit (or gedit, or something just as basic) doesn't scale. You can run for various whizzbang GUI text editors, or choose one of the two *text* *editors*. It's far better to invest time in mastering the needed percent of the tool to let it do your work for you then -- if you're having scalability problems, of course. Three words probably won't be worth the effort. :)

Just my EUR.02, please don't consider bashing -- just feeling nervous when things are presented, well, that incorrect.