Hi forum.

Has anyone tried or is using XOOP? I wonder if it is anything special or just another bbs system.

http://www.xoops.org/
refer for tips & tricks.
looks a little more advanced than the beta community boards systems.
But perhaps not as bugged out as existing more popular ones.

Have you tried it?

I did a search on tips and found nothing on that page.

Hmmm,

I have not used this platform, but it does look promising. Not sure what would define this platorform over the ones that are currently free such as mambo. Complete tell us how it goes for you, I am curious how XOOPS turns out.

TYPO3 also looks interesting.

I am looking into this now.

Any experience?

Complete I have not heard of TYPO3 but from my understanding MAMBO might be all you need. Several websites tend to use this system.

Complete,

Welcome to Talk Web Hosts! It is a pleasure to have you here contributing to the forum.

I have had a few brief experiences with Typo3. If you are looking for a versatile Content Management System, Typo3 would be a wise selection. Typo3 easily and seamlessly integrates with nearly all web layouts to provide a professional-looking website with an easy to use backend.

Looking over their website is the best you can do to see what Typo3 can do for you. If you visit this link: http://typo3.org/about/sites-made-with-typo3/, you'll see exactly how Typo3 can be integrated into almost any website to manage the content of the presence. Hope this helps. Once again, welcome -- we're glad to see new faces here!

I want a rich user interface. One that I can change on the fly as the user enters information. My first look was at a product called PRADO. But they require PHP 5. So, I kept looking and then I spotted TYPO3 mentioned in www.hotscripts.com as being rated very highly.

If I am not happy with TYPO3, I will try MAMBO. I hear good things about this as well.

Thanks John!

Hi and welcome to Talk Web Hosts.

Mambo has now changed name to Joomla...

http://www.joomla.com

I would not recommend Xoops. It's very buggy, and insecure. Highly exploitable.

Comparing XOOPS with TYPO3, I think that TYPO3 is stronger but that means that there is a bigger learning curve. But I kinda like the way that the back-end admin panel for TYPO3 looks (too bad I cannot show you ). Plus, I could figure out how TYPO3 is set up (it took a while) but after I set up XOOPS, I got this http://www.completetranslations.com/...3a-Final/html/
compare that to this http://www.completetranslations.com/...ypo3/index.php
Which do you think I think looks cleaner?