I’ve spent the last two days slaving over a new installation of Mambo that we’ll be running for La Jolla Electric. The existing page was one I designed two years ago in Frontpage, but the company’s grown beyond it.

I’ve played with Mambo a few times before this weekend, though I’ve never actually gone about setting up a site with it. Given that most of my experience was with phpWebSite, I have to admit that I’m pretty impressed. The Mambo team put a lot of effort into making the backend look “pretty”…which is important when selling the idea of a CMS to a non-geek customer.

I suspect that I’m also going to have to cave in and learn php. I’ve always managed to get by hacking and slashing through the code (leeching, pasting, etc.), but that only takes you so far. Regardless, the verdict is that Mambo is excellent…and could very well be my CMS of choice from here on out.