German national Cooking Contest for hobby-chefs

Hi, thanks everybody for the nice feedback. Well, Mambo has been quite annoying here with its not really clean HTML output, you are definitifely right, but I guess that was not so bad about it, it is more bad that to achieve non-stereotypical web sites with Mambo, you will always need to "think around corners" as you say in German. Things are simply not so straight forward and you have to think how to make this or that work out quite a lot.

So, Drupal is much more elegant for building complex sites and layouts - though I must admit, layouts like this one on Cooking Cup have really been shot together in a quick hastle, as they have a "half life" of just under a year in most cases and there is mostly just little to no budget available and one could have programmed it much more elegantly then I have... So out of practical reasons, I am not aiming for 100% perfect xHTML/CSS and I am not aiming for complete validation, but I try to stick as close as possible to standards.

There is one other big advantage using Drupal over Mambo: Drupal seems much much more easy to handle for the people here who put content online and it is MUCH quicker to set up a site using Drupal then it is with Mambo. Mostly content is created by Project Managers who are experienced in what their job description reads: managing projects. In this case: making a national cooking contest happen. They are however no web experts or have just some experiences in HTML.

Formerly I trained them to use Mambo to administer their own project web pages (like this one). It took me about 1-2 hours training a new person. Now with Drupal I am down to a training session of 15-20 minutes and they've got it and are able to put up pages containing text, images and sometimes even audio and video! So this is great!!!

Again, thanks for your nice feedback,

Stephan