anne

I'm trying to make a new site using Joomla, and I've noticed that their banner ad module isn't that great. Does anyone know of a better one? Joomla hacks doesn't seem to have any listed.

I would ideally like one that supports skyscrapers, banners, leaderboards, and boxes easily, instead of having to manually put them into the template.

Avix

I have installed it and tinkered a little bit, mainly trying to get my template to look right.

Seems a really good cms, especially for the price. lol.

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Max

I would go with Wordpress. I have had a lot of success with it. There is a tremendous Wordpress community, tons of plugins, skins, etc. You may want to consider using an external advertisement management software.

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anne

Is there any particular reason that Wordpress is better than Joomla? I've heard good things about both, and now that I'm getting used to Joomla's admin panel it seems like a very good CMS.

I've done a lot of work getting Joomla 'just right' and would be reluctant to change unless Wordpress has some 'must have' features, but I am open to the suggestion if you can explain why it is better.

Avix

I thought WordPress was just for blogs, I dont think it is as advanced as Joomla. I could be wrong though since I have never used WordPress.

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Jimmeh

Joomla looks good. I've never used it, but I've bookmarked the website and I'll check it out later.

Paul

I've used Joomla extensively over the past six months or so and I'm very impressed by the CMS. I've used it to develop a few different community websites and I have always been able to find a component to fit my needs for the site I'm working on at the time.

You can check out their forge here for the various addons that they provide.

I can't defend it agains wordpress since I've never used that one. But comparing it to phpNuke or postNuke is hands down Joomla all the way.

The joomla community is very active as well and my favorite part of Joomla has to be how easy it is to skin a site.

SophMedia

I've used it quiet a bit and done quiet a bit of integration work for numerous people. For what it does it works fairly well, but I could not stand using it for my own applications...

Super Mod

I've never tried Joomla or any of those kinds of CMS programs. I've always had them custom coded, because I liked having complete control of how it ran on my website. I have no objections with them, they're just not for me.

ArunK

Both Mambo/Joomla are pretty easy to install and use.. The banner manager for both CMS's is pretty basic, you may want to try phpAdsNew. There used to be a hack for Mambo, I'm not sure if they've released it for Joomla yet. I've searched hotscripts.com, and a few other sites for alternative banner management systems. There are a few paid scripts out there that aren't as feature heavy as phpAdsNew, but still support different types of media and different sizes including text ads.

As far as WordPress goes, I've seen some nonblog style installations of it, but not too many.

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