I thought I was computer literate.... but I must have blinked and the world passed me by....
I was told, when I asked someone what a CMS was that I have entered the world of TLA (Three Letter Acronyms)...
What exactly does a porthole do for you? ( I installed tinyporthole on one of my SMF boards..... but still not sure what it can give me? is "on" a correct way to refer to it's installation? )
What (in simple terms) is a CMS ? I was told it was a content management system. Well, OK.. what the heck does that mean? It seems to be some sort of interactive website development tool?
What IS Mambo? I went to their site. I read the pages. I tried the demo. I still can't figure out what it IS.
What is Joomla? Is it like Mambo?
I could go on... there are lots of other words, names of things, that are referred to in these threads and I have spent hours reading them and not understanding the VERY basic concepts...
so... has someone, somewhere made up a reference page defining what all these things are and what they do?
( and yes I have also checked in wikipedia - sometimes I find an answer there but not always - usually leads to more questions... )
If anyone has time to answer, that would be great !! Thanks in advance :D
not porthole... PORTAL.
A portal essentially puts a "front page" in front of your forum... allowing for announcements, and surrounding blocks (like the header, footer, right and left columns...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_portal
A CMS is exactly what you posted: a content management system. It is a system to manange content. Like a portal, the CMS is usually the front page of the site, however, unlike a portal, the CMS allows multiple categories of articles, and usually links to other sub-programs... or even bridges to other softwares... all of which run under the CMS framework.
(think OS...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems
mambo is a CMS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mambo_%28software%29
Joomla is a fork of the old mambo cms... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joomla
remember.... this first step to learning is learning where to look for answers. For web terminology, Wikipedia and Google are invaluable.
Thank you thank you thank you !!!
*laughs at my spelling* I knew it looked wrong... guess I wish I was sailing!