XmanQuote:
I've not seen another open source CMS that comes close to the quality of XOOPS in terms of flexibility, user interface, intuitive administration, module selection, documentation, and community support
Well put.
Having used XOOPS for the past 3.5 years..I agree.
It's sad that it forks so often but that often happens I guess, (in fact I was wondering where the likes of ono and catz and others had gone, but our best to them they have contributed immensly). And I hope there are never ill feeling in that regard.
Now With regard to joomla....
It looks nice doesn't it? I was tempted for a bit..briefly.. But when you get down to it..it's pretty wimpy compared to XOOPS IMO. We can use a better theme to show of this XOOPS site..sure...but we dont come here for pitch we come for info and exchange of ideas right?. Alot of new CMS these days have really slick looking site fronts...but wheres the meat? (if you want to know how flexible the look and feel of XOOPS truly can be..just visit any of of the scores of theme devlopers here)
Now don't get me wrong I think it's great these other cms exist. Everything pushes everything to be better...thats how the web has gotten where it is today!
but
Xoops can be as simple (used as a blog) or as complex (a community, news etc) as you want. our biggest fault if anything is that we tend to want to add too much, and (as we are learning at our site ,tend to overwhelm).
LOL
Now one thing I will give mambo and joomla;credit for is their effort to make more accessible, web standards system.
We gotta really work on this into the core..
However, XOOPS is still moving forward in that front and with XOOPS factory and others at least starting with the themes, highlighting this, there is more to come.
In fact our small team (of moderators at our humble XOOPS powered site) is inspired too and working on our first css based theme...with more accesible features(itll be a bit but we'll get there, we'll let all know when ever we finish,) And Soon I know everyone will be making these kind of themes too! (And then we can focus on the core templates..and moe)
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So keep the faith. Make sure you really develop/utilize/maximize the most basic modules first, You'll find them powerful. There are so many simple things to transform and utilize some of them. Then..if you get a little tired of one.. theres scores and scores more to uncover.
Just face it..
Xoops KIX!
-cheers