» Which is Better: Mambo or Joomla?

Should you go with Mambo or Joomla? Well at this point I’m not sure it really matters. They are both very similar content management systems. I’m sure someone with more technical skills than I have will disagree with me, but for now, I just don’t see much difference.

Both have the same admin, use the same templates, and many of the same components, modules, and mambots (these are really just plugins). I’m sure as time progresses, mambo and joomla will become less like each other, but it just hasn’t seemed to happen yet.

I did notice that joomla had a couple of bugs that were a little surprising. By that I mean the system works great as is, but when you start adding plugins, a couple of the most popular ones did not seem to “play nice” together. The Joomla community already had an update to fix it though by the time I came across the problem.

There is an enormous amount of support for both of these CMS’s. I just don’t think you’d go wrong choosing one over the other — so just pick one and get started building your community sites!

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