It's fantastic. Totally recommended. I have it on my blog (above) and have just used it a stripped back cms for Grubi Tennis
I also HIGHly recomend it. i use it for my personal site http://shoemoney.com and am in the process of converting some comercial sites over.
I played with it last night but I do get the impression it's very blog focussed, or at least the initial setup was. As a blog it's sooo much better, faster, cleaner than blogger (the hosted blogger I'm comparing it to) but after working with it for an hour compared with an hour's worth of drupal I had serious reservations about using WordPress as a full blown CMS. Their site isn't all that organized and plug-ins aren't documented well I find. I think I'll stick with Drupal now Mambo has become a bit of a mess.
I'd have serious reservations about any PERSON who tried to use it as a full blown CMS. I'm still happy with Mambo/Joomla and waiting to see which side of the fence I shall I shall jump to...
Well some people claim it is a real CMS but to me it seems more like an advanced blogging tool. It's just not the same. Sarah, I initially went for Mambo but now they 'split' I'm wondering... Will existing contributions work with either? Do you know of a page I can go read up on the fork and it's consequences?
4.53 will still be 4.53 and then later versions will start to force developers to choose. Depending on how septic things really are one of the teams will probably change the underlying architecture so that tempaltes, mods and components won't work on both. Hopefully we'll have a few releases before that comes into play. In the meantime I'm happy with v4.5.3 and happy to roll it out. I considered getting myself a url like joomla.co.nz but decided that I didn't want to tie myself so tightly to any one CMS - nor take that political stance. Time will tell and I'm just happy to contribute what I can and appreciate an excellent system.
i use wordpress too... but i have to say that you do need some css and php knowledge if you want to move beyond the basics (and the basics is really quite basic)... the support and response from the support forum is simply unbelievable though... very good and dedicated people there...
Fully agree with T0PS3O about Drupal's advantages compared to WordPress But your mileage may vary so try them both. The old "official" Mambo forums are in Miro's control and AFAIK messages have been heavily censored so it might not be too informative any longer. Best place to start would be the Open Source Matters forums; everything you need to know about the split has likely been dissected and discussed to death there by now.