Rapid Web Prototyping with Open Source: Part 3

Posted by The Technocrat | Filed under Geeky

The Content Management System / Website core

OK, so while the Ubuntu CD is still downloading (using my open-source Firefox browser, of course), I need to find an open-source Content Management System (CMS) that has a frontend, an administrative backend, and enough community support and add-on modules that I’ll be able to do everything I want to do. There are a lot of these out there, and a lot of great sites to demo a lot of these CMSs.

I’m going to choose Joomla, since I’ve used Mambo before, and I know there’s literally thousands of modules that plug in to Mambo/Joomla. What’s up with the name? Joomla used to be called Mambo, and there was some debate or something that Mambo wasn’t always going to be 100% open-source, so all the developers left and made their own CMS called Joomla. Joomla 1.0 was basically exactly the same as Mambo 4.5.2, but with a few extras that had been in development before the split.

What the… not a good sign here… the Joomla website is having some problems. Seems like a bad omen. We’ll find out, no turning back now… I managed to find a copy of Joomla 1.0.7 on Softpedia‘s website, downloading the 2.4MB file now…

ISO Imaging

I just realized that I have no way of getting my Ubuntu Install CD onto an actual CD. Right now I am 17% away from having it downloaded! Luckily, I’ve used a program before for Windows XP called ISO Recorder, and it’s free. Whew! A quick download, and I’m ready to burn that CD…when it gets done downloading.

Summary

Time spent in this article: 15 minutes
Time remaining for project: 565 minutes
Goals accomplished:

  • Content Management System found
  • ISO imaging program found (unplanned)

Comments (1) | January 30th, 2006

One Response to “Rapid Web Prototyping with Open Source: Part 3”

  1. Griselda Anast Says:
    February 14, 2010 at 3:48 pm

    Good post I just Love it, Keep posting more like this! Web 2.0 Videos

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