Need to pick a CMS for my first paid gig

I've been doing my own sites for years. My golf blog is one of the most popular golf blogs out there (using wordpress).

So a client of mine is hiring me to do a site for his soccer team. This is the first site someone is paying me to do. He wants to have a main page with random news and photos on it. Then have sub pages for photo galleries, news, player bios and team schedules & results.

I've built several phpBB plus 1.5 sites and could do it with that. I could also use wordpress to do most of this.

But I'm considering doing some "learning" on Mambo or some other CMS. Given the requirements listed above, should I give Mambo or a shot or what do you suggest?

 

I just started using mambo a few months ago, I like it alot, - its very good if you want others (without design skills) to maintain the content and you can get it ranking well.

Put your site in your signature

 

Yes, I do want to give my client some kind of limited admin permission to add his own news, pictures and comments...

I have 3 of my sites in my sig but they're not showing up...

NEVERMIND....got it.

 

Mambo is pretty straightforward, upload, configure, use.. pretty much.
there is also a hack called 'sef advanced'- its 40 euros or something and makes all the urls keyword friendly too.
Also, use keywords to link to your sites (in your sig)

 

Yep, can def say Mambo does the trick. Dead easy to work on, loads of mods available, some free, some about the 30-40 dollar mark, but very very customisable. Have just developed a site using Mambo, will eventually show on www.bloomsburyflowers.co.uk, but client now adding their content before switching over. One pointer with Mambo though which had me scratching my head for a couple of minutes - the Save and Cancel and Edit type links are all in the header. Most annoying changing all your content then not having a clue how to save it, so if it saves you a couple of moments confusion......

 

I haven't written code since the demise of the mainframe and was able to get a Mambo site up and running in no time. There are two non-technical publishers that add content to the site and once they became familiar with the admin UI it was easy.

It's the only CMS I've used so I have nothing to compare it to but I've been very pleased with Mambo.

-jay

P.S. Put your keywords in your signature URLs

 

As I just mentioned in another thread, both Geeklog and Xoops have a very short learning curve. I would say mastering them in a few hours is about the same level as being an intermidiate Word user.

Good Luck
jg123

 

Well I went with mambo. I was sorry at first because it just doesn't work like other systems I've used. But after some time, I've gotten the hang of it and I do like it now.