Because of Joomla's scalability, its really easy to build a site in Joomla that can grow with the demands of its users in time - but is this a set-back of using it?

Perhaps - often the third party extensions, that are so rapidly coming out for J!, are underdeveloped and instead of using them we should look to independant solutions that offer simple content handling as well?  Also, we may tend to jump to using them because we're familiar with J!, when customers might not be and may not need a CMS at all.

Its important to remember that because of Joomla's seperate front and back ends not all site customisations can be done through the front end and I think that's a major indicator that total front end solutions should always be searched for...

Through building a wide array of sites with Joomla, we've been so busy enjoying massaging it to each different application that  I realised last night it had been practically 6 months since I had taken a trip to Sourceforge to see what other Open Source projects people have been working on.

I'll have more posts to come about this but here's some non-Joomla software I'm excited about:

•  Web Media Explorer - When content repository meets media blog; a fresh approach to content management and web publishing where hard disk storage is crawled for content and organised through posts, galleries and RSS feeds automatically!
• Gekko - a simple CMS that features a stripped-down interface (including cool things like instant visual module re-ordering) with all the basic community bells and whistles - ie. comments, guestbook, profiles etc.  Unfortunately the project's in Spanish.
  
• Typo 3 - Asides from Drupal and Joomla, Typo3 is probably the third most used Open Source CMS.  The project's been developing steadily since I last paid them a visit - they've got a new BETA as of last week and some cool features like Inline Relational Record Editing...

Comments (5) >>

If all you have is a hammer, it all looks like a nail.
written by Amy Stephen, November 28, 2006

Nice article. It's good to keep looking around at all of the amazing, constantly emerging open source solutions available free of charge and free like beer. WP 2.0 multi-user is pretty nice, too. You are so gifted and are helping to lead the way for us. Keeping an eye on you.

open source cms competition
written by James, December 15, 2006

this was an interesting result. http://www.packtpub.com/article/open-source-content-management-system-award-winner-announced and since then i have tried e107 and found it to be also very good, another tool to make great websites.

typo 3
written by James, December 15, 2006

to be honest, I suspect Typo3 is the most powerful. If I had the time I would love to create a whole suite of typo3 social networking/web2.0 style plugins. check out timtab

sorry should have added url!!!
written by James, December 15, 2006

timtab = http://www.ingo-renner.com/?id=11

Drake CMS around the corner
written by drewbmore, June 04, 2007

Some of the features that jomla is going to have in its future versions are already implemented in Drake CMS; thats a pretty new project with lots of bugs too but I think it will give some headaches to competitors -bye

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