Posted by Adam on 10/30/06 15:22

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:45:50 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote:

>_mario.lat wrote:
>>>My ISP offers joomla, mambo, postnuke & xoops so no worries about
>>
>>
>> I had the same problem!
>> post nuke is too old!
>> Mambo and Joombla are pratically the same. Mambo have some political
>> problem.
>>
>> The best are Joomla and Xoops.
>>
>> Joombla is a bit easy for newby.
>>
>> If you are a programmer the best is Xoops.
>> If you have to deal with permission Xoops can create groups and assign to
>> the groups the right permission (Joomla is not so detailed with the
>> permissions).
>> Xoops is more flexible but a bit more complex.
>>
>> Joomla is more easier for beginner and you can find more
>> beautifull grafical layout (but Xoops is more flexible and power to create
>> your layout).
>>
>> If you are a bit skilled chose Xoops.
>> If you are a "normal" user and you don't have to give different permission
>> to more than two or trhee groups chose Joomla.
>> Mario.
>
>I'm currently looking at similar ones for a blog on a customer site.
>I've just started investigating Drupal. How does this compare?
>
>Basically they're looking for something which can be configured with
>multiple security levels, etc. and customized to look like the rest of
>their site. But once it's up and running they need something which
>doesn't require a huge amount of maintenance.

Joomla isn't too hot on multiple security levels & groups. Basically
only four (front end) levels with ONE group for each. There are
add-ons to get round this, but I haven't tried them.

In particular, you can't assign users/groups to specific content :-((

I may look at Drupal and XOOPS, based on comments here - for that kind
of functionality. In most other respects I really like Joomla.

Adam.

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