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Content Management Systems - wtf?!

In the middle of the first decade in 2000, free content management systems have been on the rise. Systems like phpNuke or Mambo come to people's minds, variants to the professional Typo3 system. These cms' weren't as powerful as their commercial twins but you already have been able to realise large community pages. In these days, Joomla was born as a fork from the popular Mambo cms. When I got in touch with it, I was sure that I wanted to use these kind of system for the next installment of the Realm667. Everything was quite easy to set up and the whole thing had a online-administrative backend. This way I could change and add content from anywhere on the world without being forced to use some kind of editor. Everything was implemented. After some headaches and yet several sleeples nights, the new Realm667 v6 was finished and uploaed. The real hard part was the template, but I already learned a lot concerning these kind of setups while working on messageboard systems (Woltlab Burning Board) that was a real big help.