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Mambo Changes its Name to Joomla!
Phil Shapiro writes "The popular open source content management system named Mambo has changed its name to Joomla! -- released under the GNU Public License. Some of the reasons for the name change are explained at MamboPortal.com. Joomla! is used by a very wide array of organizations and companies."
The first letter in GPL is not GNU. It's the General Public License.
"All you have to do is be fragile and grateful. So stay the underdog." Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Mambots are actually things inside of Mambo, to show pictures, and do other features, without having to code and what not... Mambo is the content management system itself... Another impressive thing... is that Mambo is so clean and efficient code-wise... I've had my site /. a few times, and each time my server has had no problems keeping up with the traffic... very impressive for an open source content management server... able to handle high-traffic sites with ease...
Amazing what sites powered by Linux can do... all for FREE...
I could care less WHAT they call it, as long as they keep providing such high-quality software as this... for FREE...
By the way, if I was to do a shameless plug, I would say go to my websites, and click on the Google Ads... but that would just be wrong :)
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Of course, it's no coincidence that both the sites you linked to are much more alike (functionally) than they are different.
That's the double-edged sword of powerful systems like Mambo (and drupal for that matter, which I have used for community.auditionrocks.com, although more out of expediency than anything else): they excel at making sites that really require exactly the features that they offer, and no more. That may sound like a stupid statement, but it's no surprise that the vast majority of Mambo-powered and drupal-powered sites have a distinct Mambo or Drupal look and feel. At their best, they let you go from prototyping to actual building very quickly; at their worst, they dictate design. And breaking out of the CMSs presentation paradigm can frequently become more trouble than it's worth.
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Indeed, it is quite disgraceful when such major web developers are unable to write valid XHTML (in this case) for their own website.
w .joomla.org%2F
u ke.org/
Check if for yourself:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fww
As of this time, seven errors are reported, plus a number of warnings.
It's difficult to tell whether it is a lack of ability, a lack of initiative, or a lack of quality control. Perhaps it is a mixture of all three factors. Regardless, it makes their project look bad. Very bad.
The least that one should expect from a web developer is that the developer's own website is standards-conformant. The lack of professionalism shown by this group of web developers rubs off on all open source developers, unfortunately.
They are, however, far better than PHP-Nuke, which currently offers 96 errors[1] on their homepage.
References:
[1] http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.phpn
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
I know alot of folks have criticized your site, but I mean really, it looks like a teenager's blog or something. If you want to see increased business, redesign a more professional site, and don't have that animation at the top with the blinking "ftp" http" "sql" etc... its almost as bad as the blink tag. Make your sight simple and elegant, not complex, not black, and don't have ads. Your selling a service, your revenue isn't based off of ads. If your services suck so bad that you need ads to support it then it says something about your service and I would think that alot of people would be hesitant to use it.
Regards,
Steve
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