XOOPS 2.5.5

Really easy CMS-System.

How can you say that it is 'Very Easy' to use? I can't even figure out how to make a new page using the demo! I can add a Block to an existing page, but how do I add a page?

xoops is realy good CMS! Very easy, and with big community! (and big french community ;)

Xoops is very excellent for newbies. I've been using Xoops for 2 months now for my website, and I have been very pleased. It has a nice community and very willing to help, you can get answers within seconds of asking a question in the support forums.. It has hundreds upon hundreds of free templates, and you can always ask if you need help modifying. Xoops has numerous FAQ that will answer design questions including modifying templates, adding adsense, which modules are good for starting out.. It's very much stable, and I haven't had an error to date.

Hello. I have not tried Xoops yet but I am very interested. I have tried Drupal one one of my sites and I love its ease of use and logic. My other site which is under construction is using Joomla and I am having difficulties just adding google adsense or basic html. I am looking at Xoops to replace my Joomla site which I might have to start from scratch. I am a newbie and have found Joomla a bit difficult for a newbie like me. Hoping that Xoops is as easy as Drupal.

I have been designing sites from scratch many years ago. It's because I didn't believe in pre-made CMS. Until I used XOOPS and my perpective changed. XOOPs offers a very wide viriety of customizable features that cut my development time by more than 50% and best of all, these CMS uses technologies that are common and familiar to developers.

I'm using Xoops for 3 years on several projects and I think it's great. I'm testing now PHPNuke, Joomla and PostNuke and I'll note here my resoults, but so far, Xoops is easy and functional. Patricia Jackson complained about support forum, I think that i was there when she asked about Blank Pages and pissed off like this. The problem is that there are too may resolved topics on forum about it that even blind man can find response. Also FAQ provides great support. Xoops is very, very good.

Installation of Xoops was not difficult, comparable to other systems. Anyhow only the core is availabe at start-up, with hardly any functionality. So it is necessary to check for modules, which are a lot in number. I started trying to find an 'page'-related module, and installed the modules xt_contenudo, icontent and content. Only the last one was showing up in the modules section as expected, for the other was a 'file not found ' error, although the procedure (copying to the modules section) was very similar to the last module and no special hints where given in the readme files. The content module is doing its job, although nothing specific or extraordinary showed up. Running phpwebsite myself and having installed drupal some minutes before, XOOPS was in comparison not exciting. Also the current version mixing with the different branches is confusing for the newbie of this system.

hi all, i tried most of the cms here including joomla ,drupal and e107...xoops comes out winner for me...
the admin interface is just great anybody can easily understand.. we can customise blocks and the community is just great.. only draw back is that the xoops forum lack features...

just try xoops u will love it ease of implementation

I have been using XOOPs for almost 2 years now. I say it is very customizable. I find it easy to use specially for the admin the admin page is easy to understand. With lots of support and modules available, this is a great CMS.

I think XOOPS is a really good CMS overall. You can find a lot of support, not only on xoops.org. there is also smartfactory.ca that gives wonderfull help, and there is also professionals services available at inboxsolutions.net. Xoops is a lot configurable, easy to customise, and have a always growing communauty of devloppers. The best is yet to come!

Really a great and easy to use CMS. I never have a problem with it. i think its the best CMS

I have to agree with others. I have evaluated in the past couple months 4 cms systems. Textpattern, Mambo, Joomla and Xoops. Xoops was by far the easiest to install (not that mambo or joomla were that difficult) and I - with the help of 2 documents (one on installing and the other a real brief overview of the Admin section) was able to get my site configure and ready for content within roughly a day to a day and a half...including useing xcGallery (coppermine) which was also a breeze to install. The interface for the backend can still use a little help, but is not bad at all, and it's way of handling modules is really simple. Documentation could also be better. the 2 I did find were a godsend and helped me get the site to a point where it is ready to be used, however, I still feel like I am not sure what I am doing. Something a little more indepth would be really good. That said they have a wonderful support community and the developement is more than promising to become even better in the future. Xoops is Top Dog in my books!

I've implemented several CMS sites for customers, etc, including TYPO3, drupal, joomla, and a couple others. I recently had a complex project and was looking for a cms that was really flexible, and landed on XOOPS, i like it soooo much, i'm migrating my site to it. a couple of the BIG things i really like are the EASE with which you can bridge xoops with things like osCommerce, coppermine gallery, wordpress, etc. it does take a little work to get everything looking similar, etc, but it's well worth it. I'm working on an XHTML/CSS only theme/design managment system which will be available on my site soon. I give XOOPS 5 stars. Great system. I've used many of them as I mentioned, and this is the best, It's well worth the effort to learn and get used to using. you can do anything with it.

How do you create a page? How do you edit a page? Where are the options? You login to the admin panel and all you get is 'edit my profile' blah blah blah .. is this a forum or a CMS... not one 'edit page', 'create page' .... once you use joomla there is no going back unfortunately...