Published by Deborah on 17 Jun 2005 at 08:37 pm
Xoops
Xoops was actually my favorite out of the three programs. They have some really cool plugins. My biggest problem with Xoops was the ability to customize the skin. After searching through their forum, I was able to figure out how to upload my logo. At the time, I had no knowledge of CMS and very little HTML. So, it was a very frustrating experience.
Also, my site loaded very slowly on my dialup connection. I continued adding content and installing new plugins. The more plugins I installed, the slower the loadtime became. Then I started having problems logging in. I would have to enter my information twice. After my experience with Geeklog, I was afraid that I was eventually going to get locked out.
I may return to Xoops when I have the spare time to fiddle with it. The biggest frustration with these CMS programs was the wasted weeks of writing time.
Lee Pletzers on 31 Aug 2005 at 8:03 am #
I got locked out of my own online Gallery. Major headaches trying to get it back online, but I failed so deleted the directory and database.
Deborah on 31 Aug 2005 at 4:02 pm #
Man, that sucks.
It seems like all of these free CMS’s have major issues and yet are still popular with the public. I’ve yet to find something similar that is bug free. If you find one, please let me know.
Lee Pletzers on 03 Sep 2005 at 6:16 am #
they are popular because they are free and generally work. First time this has ever happened to me.
Deborah on 03 Sep 2005 at 8:51 am #
Were you able to figure out what happened? Sometimes it’s a stupid little thing like a typo. In spite of the bugs, I still like Xoops, but I will never trust it for a site like WBA again. I used it for another site for ghost stories and haven’t had any problems so far.
I’m thinking about testing BolinOS (which has multimedia features). If it works the way I want to, I may switch my ghost stories site, since I’d barely started on it when Clive approached me about WBA. I’ll post a review once I test it.