Website solutions: Wordpress, Mambo, OSCommerce
February 13th, 2007 by rnixWordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.
Mambo is a full-featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Continue reading for a detailed feature list.
*A large and healthy user and developer community.
*Provides a basic level of content approval for registered users.
*Online help.
*Page caching mechanism to improve performance on busy sites.
*Trash manager
*Advertising management (banners, etc).
*Media (images, documents) upload and management.
*Content display scheduling.
*Content syndication (RSS).
*Search engine friendly (SEF) URL’s.
*Internationalisation (interface translation).
*Content macro language (aka mambots).
*Advanced and separate system administation system.
*Advanced package/addon/template deployment system.
*Simple but powerful template system (written mostly in HTML, no complex templating syntax to learn, just a couple of PHP functions to include).
*Heirarchial user access groups.
*Basic visitor statistics.
*Multiple WYSIWYG content editor support
*Simple polls
*Content voting/rating system.null
osCommerce is an Open Source based online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved.
osCommerce has attracted the largest community for an e-commerce solution that consists of over 127,700 store owners and developers worldwide with add-ons being contributed on a daily basis. To date there are over 3,800 add-ons available that have been created by the community to extend the features of an osCommerce online store.