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First off, let me say that XOOPS is a fine CMS. It has some great deatures and a ton of addons. The problems is with editing the look of these pages. I've spent more time trying to edit the look of one module than I care to mention. It's almost as if it was designed to make me go crazy.
For example, in the polls module. All I want to do is remove the expiration column from the page. I change the template, update the module, clear my cache, but nothing changes. So I go directly to the db and try to change the tblsource column. Still, nothing happens. What am I doing wrong here?
I've had the same problem with update the popnupblog module. Nothing changes. Then again I can easily change the web link and downloads module. That works perfectly when I change the template and update everything. What's with this thing?
Now I must admit I'm not the best PHP guy out there, but I'm ok. I've worked with other systems and it seems like XOOPS is designed in a way to make it difficult to change things. It's driving me nuts. I have a client who is all over me for the simpliest of changes, but it's taking days because I can't remove a column, or change the page at all.
It's too bad I discovered Mambo a little too late. No disrespect but it seems like a much easier CMS to use.