Mambo or Joomla

JonnyT · 26 May 2009 at 00:52

I'm looking to re-jig my company's website away from our expensive web designer/host company and their proprietry CMS. We currently have separate web hosting as a legacy from the days prior to going with them (wasn't by choice btw!) & they offer both Mambo and Joomla CMS addons (both free) for their hositng packages.

Just wondered which was the better of the two & if anyone had any experience of writing custom templates for either?

Azza · 26 May 2009 at 02:18

Ive used both, and I prefer Joomla, using at the moment and I like it more.

I havn't writen any templates for either though.

chrisxuk · 26 May 2009 at 09:01

Joomlas free right?

Azza · 26 May 2009 at 11:45

Both are free.

Edward01 · 26 May 2009 at 11:57

joomla

SourChipmunk · 26 May 2009 at 12:07

Isn't Mambo just an old version of what later became Joomla? Or Joomla was a spin-off or something.

Anyway, my vote also for Joomla. Seems to have better product support.

Hades · 26 May 2009 at 13:10

Yep, pretty sure Joomla was forked from Mambo and is generally more current and maintained?

tres · 26 May 2009 at 16:06

Mambo was purchased, new owners wanted to change a lot of it

Joomla was many of the old Mambo guys, still wanted it free, hence Joomla.

Much better, and more components/modules for it these days

JOOMLA

Reasteh · 26 May 2009 at 16:52

i use joomla quite a bit but havent made any custom templates from scratch, only modified existing templates.

JonnyT · 27 May 2009 at 16:19

Thanks for your input. Much appreciated!