Joomla, huh?

kbsnowball posted this at 01:09 — 11th March 2006.

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I have installed SMF on a new hosting service. I am new to SMF and would like to be able to have other pages that can link onto it. For instance maybe a gallery page or information page. Someone suggested getting Joomla, does anyone have experience with this?

Thank you

Kathy

teammatt3 posted this at 01:35 — 11th March 2006.

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Can you tell me what SMF is?

I have not personally used Joomla before but I hear it's good. It is based off Mambo too (which is one of the best CMSs out there.) You can try it out here http://opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=2097&Itemid=159

Renegade posted this at 05:31 — 11th March 2006.

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teammatt3 wrote: I have not personally used Joomla before but I hear it's good. It is based off Mambo too (which is one of the best CMSs out there.) You can try it out here http://opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=2097&Itemid=159

Joomla is Mambo IFAIK, it just recently under went a name change.

kbsnowball posted this at 02:59 — 11th March 2006.

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SMF is Simple Machines Forum. http://www.simplemachines.org/

demonhale posted this at 08:58 — 11th March 2006.

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actually mambo was the old name, and up until its final stable release was bought off from its original programmers/developers... Later they resurfaced and continued to work on more updates and features, but couldnt use the mambo name anymore, so they named it joomla!...

Renegade posted this at 10:18 — 11th March 2006.

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demonhale wrote: actually mambo was the old name, and up until its final stable release was bought off from its original programmers/developers... Later they resurfaced and contnued to work on more updates and features, but couldnt use the mambo name anymore, so they amed it joomla!...

Thanks for repeating what I just basically said...

demonhale posted this at 16:49 — 11th March 2006.

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I just gave a more detailed info renegade, they just didnt change names with no reason, saying they change names might mean they are still from the same people but they woke up one day and decided to rename it...

Lost Hunter posted this at 22:04 — 14th March 2006.

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My site has joomla and smf integrated, so if you want you can see how it looks like

GDVS posted this at 10:17 — 1st April 2006.

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I have a lot of experience with Mambo/Joomla and can thoroughly recommend it. It's not perfect but then nothing is, the devs are working hard on redoing the architecture to remove some of the limitations and it's beautiful code to work with.