New CMS

Swearwords galore are emanating from the area around my desk at the moment. The new CMS that the site is using is Mambo, an Open Source thing that I’d come across about 18 months ago, but not fully used. The reason I didn’t bother using it properly back then is because it was – to be frank – an utter cunt to set up, and about as instinctive as repeatedly kicking a brick wall while barefoot. In fact, I wrote this and this about it at the time.

So, the new place (and I really must think up a name for them sometime) has a site that’s been around for a while running on PHPNuke which they’ve decided should be *cough* “upgraded” to run on Mambo. They hired a company to do it (thank God – I’d have murdered by now) who seem to know their way round the software – well, someone has to, I guess. And now it’s down to me to sort out the final teething problems, along with things like file uploads and the like.

And I have to say, even when using it as a system that’s been set up by people who know what they’re doing, it’s still an utter piece of shite. It’s not instinctive, it’s pretty much user-hostile, and doesn’t follow a logical workflow for things like editing or uploading documents.

In short, it’s junk. Regardless of the fact it appears to be used by a lot of people, and the fact that when running it apparently runs just fine. But when you’re adding in content, or trying to edit stuff, it’s junk. Pure and simple. I’m seriously bloody glad I went with WP instead of it.