After playing around with xoops for 1 year ++ , i start playing with blog system and any blog related tech, but at the same time i still keep my eyes open on the CMS (Content management system) market.
Drupal and Mambo are the 2 cms which catch my eyes, drupal get my attention when i looking for a blog community system, it happen that james release the drupal4blogger , so i been play around with it. For mambo is because the theme system, i can always see a lot of nice theme for mambo which catching my attention ..
after i compare the latest version of both, i think
Mambo
- community is big
- got lots of nice theme
- lots of component
- quite professional
- poor user management system
- admin interface is confusing
- it seem need lots of resource to run
Drupal
- community smaller if compare to Mambo
- not so many theme
- moderate size of module but most module can serve different purpose
- user managementis good, assign different role on different permission
- admin interface looks clean and easy to use
- having quite a few build in module to control the traffic of site
thats basiclly my opinion after playing with it for some time, i need to build a small e commerce site for my sis in aus, i think Drupal will be a better choice, because its look easier, if i create a Mambo site for her, i wonder how long it takes for her to manage the site ..
there is some discussion on drupal about this issue , which i think quite worth to read, or compare these 2 on cmsmatrix .. , btw spreadfirefox is build on Drupal !
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Hi Danny,
thx for the input ..
btw i believe you can try the demo at http://www.opensourcecms.com
geez from aus ? i use to stay in melbourne for sometime .. gonna miss that city
oooh… fixed the link issue, thx for the remind too
I’ve been looking for some bad interfaces to add to our site, so I’m off to take a look at the problems the admin interface in mambo! Tks.
lol Duncan : mmm i wont say its bad .. but i rather think so not user friendly ..
dannyFoo : hehe thx for the suggestion will try the website baker if i have time
Before you make your decision, you might want to work with the latest version of Drupal. James Seng’s drupal4bloggers is a fork which I believe is based on Drupal 4.4. Drupal has gone to 4.6 now, and there are many improvements with the core installation and extra modules that you won’t get from drupal4bloggers.
Will do Charlie .. btw ur drupal site looks cool !