Product Review Website

how to set one up?

[StephenSails]

Hi,

I would like to set up a product review website where either I write up an article or the website visitor can write a product review. Various other extras as well. I was just wondering whether anyone has come across any off the shelf packages at all?

Thanks in advance

Stephen

[pompousjohn]

Pretty much any blog software or CMS can handle that, it's really not a very tall order.

My first choice would be Wordpress because its so easy your cat could have a website.

Second choice would be Joomla because if you changed your mind and wanted a complete web portal with thousands of possible add-ons for extended functionality you could do it no sweat.

With Joomla you would need to install at least one add-on in order for visitors to comment on articles though, wordpress does that "out of the box".

Both are free, open source products.

[jmusselwhite]

Interesting. I have installed both Wordpress and Joomla, and played around with both, including adding in some plu-ins. I'm wondering where Joomla has advantages over WP, given that WP has been around so long, so many developers, so many plug-ins, etc.

Is it because Joomla is a more comprehensive website CMS product? Can someone help me understand why Joomla (or Mambo and other competing CMS's) is a better choice in some situations?

New to this great site!
Thanks

[pompousjohn]

Personally I started with Wordpress but then felt that if I was not specifically blogging then Wordpress was actually kind of limited compared to Joomla.

For example it is very easy to plug in a full-featured forum component to Joomla, and there are around 5 different forums to choose from.(it may be possible to do this with Wordpress too, I just never got that far) also when setting up Joomla sites I just felt I had more control than with Wordpress.

The first thing I did before committing to a CMS was shop around and see how many third party products there were available to extend it, and I was very impressed with the quantity and quality of free, open source offerings for Joomla.