From Mambo – Joomla! 1.0

Ok, we’ve all heard of Mambo CMS (Content Management System). It’s a PHP package which many use to set up and manage websites. I’ve been using Mambo on a couple of my sites in the past and frequently on sites done for customers who wish to perform their own updates to their sites but have little web development skills. Although Mambo has a bit of a learning curve, once you do the workings down, anyone can update the site in a nice WYSIWYG editor straight from the website itself.

From Mambo spawn Joomla!!! In a nutshell, there were some differences between the management team and the development team on the Mambo project, so the development guys decided to leave and create their own product, Joomla

Joomla! is a production of Open Source Matters, the same team that brought you the award winning Mambo Content Management System. OSM has taken their final stable version of Mambo (4.5.2.3), given it a spring clean and named it Joomla! 1.0 In addition, several small features that were going to be released in Joomla! 1.1 have been brought forward and included in this release.

Joomla comes with more stability and a huge library of plugings (modules) and templates for you. A beginner can get a webstie up and running in less than a day. I, personally, have converted a static HTML website into a Joomla template including importing of data in less than three (3) hours.

Do, give it a try.