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by jurgis on 2004/12/4 17:58:12
Hi, I am more of programmer than designer. and thats my experience of my two sites of XOOPS for communities of about 300 peoples (10% really active - submitters):
XOOPS is my first CMS to live with.
* Fluent instalation
* quite intuitive admin panel (backend) - thoug sometimes was time consuming to deal with access rights..
* smarty wasn't of big (or maybe even any) use for me..
* was time-consuming to find and make up the design we wanted
* I managed to hack some modules, but didn't manage to make up my own (even a blank one..).
** because there were not enough docs
** for me XOOPS OO seemed compicated to code according to it
* was hard time (well, more of "took a while") making up horizontal dynamic menus
* my XOOPS theme loads slower than mambo sites I know (well may be I overloaded it with js.. - for dynamic menu and and ability for modules to collapse http://somsa.ktusa.lt/xoops)
With so many drawbacks of XOOPS and so much virtue of Mamboo, I am very surprised of seeing you sticking around. I would have expected you actively helping other Mambo users instead of wasting your time here.
Every system has its strengths and weaknesses, one chooses the one that best fits his/her needs.
To me at least, Xoops' strength is the extensibility, it is second to none, not mentioning the cleanness of the core systems. I am not a programmer and I don't have any problems hacking and making my own customized modules. Simply taking a look how the XOOPS developers had coded their modules would yield a great deal in developing your own module.
Xoops is not perfect. If you are a user of Xoops, make sugegestions to make it better. Otherwise, don't use it and no one appreciates your bashfulness.
