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Joomla and Mambo are
free, open-source content managers
which allow their users to publish
content onto their respective
websites. They are the most popular
content management systems available
at the moment. Ironically, Joomla
and Mambo originally came from the
same development team: Mambo.
However they split in 2005 when the
core developers of Mambo left to set
up Joomla over certain developmental
differences. Nevertheless,
regardless of the history behind
these two content managing systems,
they have grown to become the
dominant forces in this industry.
There are varied opinions behind the
users of these two Joomla and Mambo
hosting systems.
The Joomla system is a system which
comprises many different parts which
allow extensions and integrations to
made added on to it easily. One such
extension would be the "plugins"
which are background extensions
which give the Joomla platform even
more options and functionality. The
Mambo platform is highly similar, as
Joomla is an adaptation of Mambo,
and both are award-winning content
management systems. Most large
websites with directories and
databases require the use of a CMS,
or content management system. It is
common for most organizations to
have an internal email or data input
system, and this is usually done
through a content management system,
or rather, Joomla or Mambo. There are many potential web hosts
Host
Monster,
iPower,
StartLogic,
LunarPages,
Globat that you can use.
The benefits of using Joomla and
Mambo hosting are huge. Both content
managing systems have huge official
and unofficial communities and
fan-bases. This allows the Mambo and
Joomla platforms to offer
bi-directional text support which
are not available to other, smaller
content management systems. This
allows companies to tailor the
content language to whatever is the
prevailing or common language spoken
there. Also, the large community and
the open-source nature of both
Joomla and Mambo managers means that
there are many useful unofficial
plugins, extensions, addons, web
templates and other freelance
customization services. A clear
example of this fact is that there
are over 2100 extensions available
for Joomla, and this is only a
record of the official ones. The
large variety of extensions can
allow a web master to carefully
tailor the content management system
to the needs of the organization,
allowing for a better crafted CMS
altogether.
The advantages of Joomla and Mambo
do not simply stop here. Joomla and
Mambo allow for any programmer to
make changes using a single
platform. Since Joomla and Mambo are
so widely used in the content
management system industry, it is
simple for one programmer to add on
certain extensions to a website and
a second programmer to continue
working from there. There is no need
to adapt or modify anything because
everything works in a single CMS.
This allows companies and websites
to work faster and outsource more
work to outside programmers, be it
freelance or otherwise. This is a
benefit to the entire open source
community as well.
Ultimately, Joomla and Mambo are an
important part in websites that
require a content management system.
They are the benchmark for the
current content management systems
to measure up to. With such a large
community, it really is no surprise
that these two players are
dominating the market the way they
are.
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