[[Mambo]] is a [[License:GPL|GPL]] licensed Web Content Management System originally developed by Australia-based [[Miro International]], a

provider of software and services for web publishing and collaboration. Since August of 2005, Mambo has been run by a non-profit Foudnation -- the Mambo Foundation, who protects and promotes the Open Source project. Mambo's architecture is based on [[PHP]] and [[MySQL]].

In late 2005, [[Mambo]] a group of develoeprs decided to depart the main project and forked the code base to create [[Joomla]].

Mambo's primary design goal is ease of use and they have accomplished this goal with a simple user interface and functionality

targeted toward managing corporate web sites and customer extranets. Mambo is quick and easy to set up - especially if the

customer is willing to use the presentation templates that come with the software. These templates are fairly design-neutral

and have the potential to work nicely with different corporate branding elements.

h1. Content Production/Editing

Content creators can create static pages and content items using the [[TinyMCE]] in-page [[WYSIWYG]] [[HTML editor]]. The major

difference between static pages and content items is that content items are slightly more structured with an introductory text

field, which is useful for listing pages. Images are associated with assets through the user interface rather than [[HTML]]

references. This helps Mambo maintain these relationships and prevent broken image references.

Users have a choice of editing content through the administrative interface or directly on the site. The general guideline is to

reserve use of the administrative interface for trained power users to prevent inadvertent mis-configuration. In-site editing is

sufficient to make textual changes and is foolproof but does not give access to metadata and advanced publishing features.

h1. Management

Assets within a Mambo site can be in one of two states: published or unpublished. The absence of content versioning makes

changes to published pages immediately visible upon save. However, an author is able to preview from the edit page to verify

changes before saving. Mambo has a simple locking mechanism to prevent users from trying to edit the same asset

simultaneously.

Assets are placed on a site by tagging them for the home page, associating them with menus that drive the

site's navigation, or assigning metadata and other categories for dynamic listing pages.

h1. Presentation

Mambo has a skins framework (called templates) that manages customizations to the presentation templates and allows an

administrator to toggle between skins. Installing a skin is easily done through the administrative interface. Templates are

written in pure [[PHP]], unlike the proprietary tagging languages that many other [[CMS]] use. This is an advantage of lessening the amount of specialized skill required to customize and manage a Mambo site.

The Mambo and Joomla communities have several

websites that host downloadable skins and there is an active marketplace for custom skin development.

Mambo has a flat URL structure and relies on query strings to request specific pages. There are some work-arounds available to create search-friendly

URLs but they are not core to the product.

Mambo comes with an internal search engine that can search through page-based content on the site. Other visitor-facing

functionality, such as blogs, a shopping cart, and a photo gallery can be added by downloading and installing modules (called

mambots) through the management user interface

h1. Community and Support

While the fork between [[Joomla]] and [[Mambo]] fragmented the community, the original community was large and vibrant enough that both new communities are healthy. The Joomla project, in addition to taking a majority of core team members is also drawing a sizable portion of the user and third party developer community. Mambo has backfilled with a new core development team.

There are several Mambo and Joomla related third party sites that discuss Mambo and innovative ways to use it including MamboXchange and JoomlaForge which are like SourceForge for modules. The Source is a Mambo Community and downloads site run by the Foundation. Both Mambo and Joomla have active forums and do a decent job of notification of security vulnerabilities.

The Joomla user forum is excellent with over 1,000 posts per day and a well organized moderator community. Forum participants are generally very polite and helpful, a phenomenon that some attribute to the policy of using one’s own picture in the forum profile which inserts a degree of personal accountability for what is said.

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[[Mambo]] is a [[License:GPL|GPL]] licensed Web Content Management System originally developed by Australia-based [[Miro International]], a

provider of software and services for web publishing and collaboration. Since August of 2005, Mambo has been run by a non-profit Foudnation -- the Mambo Foundation, who protects and promotes the Open Source project. Mambo's architecture is based on [[PHP]] and [[MySQL]].

In late 2005, [[Mambo]] a group of develoeprs decided to depart the main project and forked the code base to create [[Joomla]].

Mambo's primary design goal is ease of use and they have accomplished this goal with a simple user interface and functionality

targeted toward managing corporate web sites and customer extranets. Mambo is quick and easy to set up - especially if the

customer is willing to use the presentation templates that come with the software. These templates are fairly design-neutral

and have the potential to work nicely with different corporate branding elements.

h1. Content Production/Editing

Content creators can create static pages and content items using the [[TinyMCE]] in-page [[WYSIWYG]] [[HTML editor]]. The major

difference between static pages and content items is that content items are slightly more structured with an introductory text

field, which is useful for listing pages. Images are associated with assets through the user interface rather than [[HTML]]

references. This helps Mambo maintain these relationships and prevent broken image references.

Users have a choice of editing content through the administrative interface or directly on the site. The general guideline is to

reserve use of the administrative interface for trained power users to prevent inadvertent mis-configuration. In-site editing is

sufficient to make textual changes and is foolproof but does not give access to metadata and advanced publishing features.

h1. Management

Assets within a Mambo site can be in one of two states: published or unpublished. The absence of content versioning makes

changes to published pages immediately visible upon save. However, an author is able to preview from the edit page to verify

changes before saving. Mambo has a simple locking mechanism to prevent users from trying to edit the same asset

simultaneously.

Assets are placed on a site by tagging them for the home page, associating them with menus that drive the

site's navigation, or assigning metadata and other categories for dynamic listing pages.

h1. Presentation

Mambo has a skins framework (called templates) that manages customizations to the presentation templates and allows an

administrator to toggle between skins. Installing a skin is easily done through the administrative interface. Templates are

written in pure [[PHP]], unlike the proprietary tagging languages that many other [[CMS]] use. This is an advantage of lessening the amount of specialized skill required to customize and manage a Mambo site.

The Mambo and Joomla communities have several

websites that host downloadable skins and there is an active marketplace for custom skin development.

Mambo has a flat URL structure and relies on query strings to request specific pages. There are some work-arounds available to create search-friendly

URLs but they are not core to the product.

Mambo comes with an internal search engine that can search through page-based content on the site. Other visitor-facing

functionality, such as blogs, a shopping cart, and a photo gallery can be added by downloading and installing modules (called

mambots) through the management user interface

h1. Community and Support

While the fork between [[Joomla]] and [[Mambo]] fragmented the community, the original community was large and vibrant enough that both new communities are healthy. The Joomla project, in addition to taking a majority of core team members is also drawing a sizable portion of the user and third party developer community. Mambo has backfilled with a new core development team.

There are several Mambo and Joomla related third party sites that discuss Mambo and innovative ways to use it including MamboXchange and JoomlaForge which are like SourceForge for modules. The Source is a Mambo Community and downloads site run by the Foundation. Both Mambo and Joomla have active forums and do a decent job of notification of security vulnerabilities.

The Joomla user forum is excellent with over 1,000 posts per day and a well organized moderator community. Forum participants are generally very polite and helpful, a phenomenon that some attribute to the policy of using one’s own picture in the forum profile which inserts a degree of personal accountability for what is said.

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[[Mambo]] is a [[License:GPL|GPL]] licensed Web Content Management System originally developed and distributed by Australia-based [[Miro International]], a

provider of software and services for web publishing and collaboration. Since August of 2005, In addition to providing consulting services around Mambo, Miro International also provides a hosted Mambo has been run by a non-profit Foudnation -- the service, called Mambo Foundation, who protects Corporate Edition, which includes support and promotes the Open Source project.

hosting in their data centers. Mambo's architecture is based on [[PHP]] and [[MySQL]].

In late 2005, Recently, [[Mambo]] a group has had some internal

political turmoil, which resulted in most of develoeprs decided to depart the main project and forked core developers forking the code base to create [[Joomla]]. Since the fork happened so recently, the applications are still nearly identical in function and capability.

Mambo's primary design goal is ease of use and they have accomplished this goal with a simple user interface and functionality

targeted toward managing corporate web sites and customer extranets. Mambo is quick and easy to set up - especially if the

customer is willing to use the presentation templates that come with the software. These templates are fairly design-neutral

and have the potential to work nicely with different corporate branding elements.

h1. Content Production/Editing

Content creators can create static pages and content items using the [[TinyMCE]] in-page [[WYSIWYG]] [[HTML editor]]. The major

difference between static pages and content items is that content items are slightly more structured with an introductory text

field, which is useful for listing pages. Images are associated with assets through the user interface rather than [[HTML]]

references. This helps Mambo maintain these relationships and prevent broken image references.

Users have a choice of editing content through the administrative interface or directly on the site. The general guideline is to

reserve use of the administrative interface for trained power users to prevent inadvertent mis-configuration. In-site editing is

sufficient to make textual changes and is foolproof but does not give access to metadata and advanced publishing features.

h1. Management

Assets within a Mambo site can be in one of two states: published or unpublished. The absence of content versioning makes

changes to published pages immediately visible upon save. However, an author is able to preview from the edit page to verify

changes before saving. Mambo has a simple locking mechanism to prevent users from trying to edit the same asset

simultaneously.

Assets are placed on a site by tagging them for the home page, associating them with menus that drive the

site's navigation, or assigning metadata and other categories for dynamic listing pages.

h1. Presentation

Mambo Mambo/Joomla! has a skins framework (called templates) that manages customizations to the presentation templates and allows an

administrator to toggle between skins. Installing a skin is easily done through the administrative interface. Templates are

written in pure [[PHP]], unlike the proprietary tagging languages that many other [[CMS]] use. This is an advantage of lessening the amount of specialized skill required to customize and manage a Mambo site.

The Mambo and Joomla communities have several

websites that host downloadable skins and there is an active marketplace for custom skin development.

Mambo has a flat URL structure and relies on query strings to request specific pages. There are some work-arounds available to create search-friendly

URLs but they are not core to the product.

Mambo comes with an internal search engine that can search through page-based content on the site. Other visitor-facing

functionality, such as blogs, a shopping cart, and a photo gallery can be added by downloading and installing modules (called

mambots) through the management user interface

h1. Community and Support

While the fork between [[Joomla]] and [[Mambo]] fragmented the community, the original community was large and vibrant enough

that both new communities are healthy. The Joomla project, in addition to taking a majority of core team members is also

drawing a sizable portion of the user and third party developer community. Mambo has backfilled with a new core development

team.

There are several Mambo and Joomla related third party sites that discuss Mambo and innovative ways to use it including MamboXchange

MamboForge and JoomlaForge which are like SourceForge for modules. The Source Mambo Loveiv is a Mambo Community community driven site for public

relations and downloads site run by the Foundation. advocacy. Both Mambo and Joomla have active forums and do a decent job of notification of security

vulnerabilities.

The Joomla user forum is excellent with over 1,000 posts per day and a well organized moderator community.

Forum participants are generally very polite and helpful, a phenomenon that some attribute to the policy of using one’s own

picture in the forum profile which inserts a degree of personal accountability for what is said.

_( "Information from Optaros":http://www.optaros.com/pdf/optaros_cmsReport_012206_sgg.pdf )_

[[Mambo]] a [[License:GPL|GPL]] licensed Web Content Management System developed and distributed by [[Miro International]], a

provider of software and services for web publishing and collaboration. In addition to providing consulting services around Mambo, Miro International also provides a hosted Mambo service, called Mambo Corporate Edition, which includes support and

hosting in their data centers. Mambo's architecture is based on [[PHP]] and [[MySQL]].

Recently, [[Mambo]] has had some internal

political turmoil, which resulted in most of the core developers forking the code base to create [[Joomla]]. Since the fork happened so recently, the applications are still nearly identical in function and capability.

Mambo's primary design goal is ease of use and they have accomplished this goal with a simple user interface and functionality

targeted toward managing corporate web sites and customer extranets. Mambo is quick and easy to set up - especially if the

customer is willing to use the presentation templates that come with the software. These templates are fairly design-neutral

and have the potential to work nicely with different corporate branding elements.

h1. Content Production/Editing

Content creators can create static pages and content items using the [[TinyMCE]] in-page [[WYSIWYG]] [[HTML editor]]. The major

difference between static pages and content items is that content items are slightly more structured with an introductory text

field, which is useful for listing pages. Images are associated with assets through the user interface rather than [[HTML]]

references. This helps Mambo maintain these relationships and prevent broken image references.

Users have a choice of editing content through the administrative interface or directly on the site. The general guideline is to

reserve use of the administrative interface for trained power users to prevent inadvertent mis-configuration. In-site editing is

sufficient to make textual changes and is foolproof but does not give access to metadata and advanced publishing features.

h1. Management

Assets within a Mambo site can be in one of two states: published or unpublished. The absence of content versioning makes

changes to published pages immediately visible upon save. However, an author is able to preview from the edit page to verify

changes before saving. Mambo has a simple locking mechanism to prevent users from trying to edit the same asset

simultaneously.

Assets are placed on a site by tagging them for the home page, associating them with menus that drive the

site's navigation, or assigning metadata and other categories for dynamic listing pages.

h1. Presentation

Mambo/Joomla! has a skins framework (called templates) that manages customizations to the presentation templates and allows an

administrator to toggle between skins. Installing a skin is easily done through the administrative interface. Templates are

written in pure [[PHP]], unlike the proprietary tagging languages that many other [[CMS]] use. This is an advantage of lessening the amount of specialized skill required to customize and manage a Mambo site.

The Mambo and Joomla communities have several

websites that host downloadable skins and there is an active marketplace for custom skin development.

Mambo has a flat URL structure and relies on query strings to request specific pages. There are some work-arounds available to create search-friendly

URLs but they are not core to the product.

Mambo comes with an internal search engine that can search through page-based content on the site. Other visitor-facing

functionality, such as blogs, a shopping cart, and a photo gallery can be added by downloading and installing modules (called

mambots) through the management user interface

h1. Community and Support

While the fork between [[Joomla]] and [[Mambo]] fragmented the community, the original community was large and vibrant enough

that both new communities are healthy. The Joomla project, in addition to taking a majority of core team members is also

drawing a sizable portion of the user and third party developer community. Mambo has backfilled with a new core development

team.

There are several Mambo and Joomla related third party sites that discuss Mambo and innovative ways to use it including

MamboForge and JoomlaForge which are like SourceForge for modules. Mambo Loveiv is a community driven site for public

relations and advocacy. Both Mambo and Joomla have active forums and do a decent job of notification of security

vulnerabilities.

The Joomla user forum is excellent with over 1,000 posts per day and a well organized moderator community.

Forum participants are generally very polite and helpful, a phenomenon that some attribute to the policy of using one’s own

picture in the forum profile which inserts a degree of personal accountability for what is said. x

_( "Information from Optaros":http://www.optaros.com/pdf/optaros_cmsReport_012206_sgg.pdf )_

[[Mambo]] a [[License:GPL|GPL]] licensed Web Content Management System developed and distributed by [[Miro International]], a

provider of software and services for web publishing and collaboration. In addition to providing consulting services around Mambo, Miro International also provides a hosted Mambo service, called Mambo Corporate Edition, which includes support and

hosting in their data centers. Mambo's architecture is based on [[PHP]] and [[MySQL]].

Recently, [[Mambo]] has had some internal

political turmoil, which resulted in most of the core developers forking the code base to create [[Joomla]]. Since the fork happened so recently, the applications are still nearly identical in function and capability.

Mambo's primary design goal is ease of use and they have accomplished this goal with a simple user interface and functionality

targeted toward managing corporate web sites and customer extranets. Mambo is quick and easy to set up - especially if the

customer is willing to use the presentation templates that come with the software. These templates are fairly design-neutral

and have the potential to work nicely with different corporate branding elements.

h1. Content Production/Editing

Content creators can create static pages and content items using the [[TinyMCE]] in-page [[WYSIWYG]] [[HTML editor]]. The major

difference between static pages and content items is that content items are slightly more structured with an introductory text

field, which is useful for listing pages. Images are associated with assets through the user interface rather than [[HTML]]

references. This helps Mambo maintain these relationships and prevent broken image references.

Users have a choice of editing content through the administrative interface or directly on the site. The general guideline is to

reserve use of the administrative interface for trained power users to prevent inadvertent mis-configuration. In-site editing is

sufficient to make textual changes and is foolproof but does not give access to metadata and advanced publishing features.

h1. Management

Assets within a Mambo site can be in one of two states: published or unpublished. The absence of content versioning makes

changes to published pages immediately visible upon save. However, an author is able to preview from the edit page to verify

changes before saving. Mambo has a simple locking mechanism to prevent users from trying to edit the same asset

simultaneously.

Assets are placed on a site by tagging them for the home page, associating them with menus that drive the

site's navigation, or assigning metadata and other categories for dynamic listing pages.

h1. Presentation

Mambo/Joomla! has a skins framework (called templates) that manages customizations to the presentation templates and allows an

administrator to toggle between skins. Installing a skin is easily done through the administrative interface. Templates are

written in pure [[PHP]], unlike the proprietary tagging languages that many other [[CMS]] use. This is an advantage of lessening the amount of specialized skill required to customize and manage a Mambo site.

The Mambo and Joomla communities have several

websites that host downloadable skins and there is an active marketplace for custom skin development.

Mambo has a flat URL structure and relies on query strings to request specific pages. There are some work-arounds available to create search-friendly

URLs but they are not core to the product.

Mambo comes with an internal search engine that can search through page-based content on the site. Other visitor-facing

functionality, such as blogs, a shopping cart, and a photo gallery can be added by downloading and installing modules (called

mambots) through the management user interface

h1. Community and Support

While the fork between [[Joomla]] and [[Mambo]] fragmented the community, the original community was large and vibrant enough

that both new communities are healthy. The Joomla project, in addition to taking a majority of core team members is also

drawing a sizable portion of the user and third party developer community. Mambo has backfilled with a new core development

team.

There are several Mambo and Joomla related third party sites that discuss Mambo and innovative ways to use it including

MamboForge and JoomlaForge which are like SourceForge for modules. Mambo Loveiv is a community driven site for public

relations and advocacy. Both Mambo and Joomla have active forums and do a decent job of notification of security

vulnerabilities.

The Joomla user forum is excellent with over 1,000 posts per day and a well organized moderator community.

Forum participants are generally very polite and helpful, a phenomenon that some attribute to the policy of using one’s own

picture in the forum profile which inserts a degree of personal accountability for what is said.

_( "Information from Optaros":http://www.optaros.com/pdf/optaros_cmsReport_012206_sgg.pdf )_

[[Mambo]] is a [[License:GPL|GPL]] licensed Web Content Management System developed and distributed by [[Miro International]], a

provider of software and services for web publishing and collaboration. In addition to providing consulting services around Mambo, Miro International also provides a hosted Mambo service, called Mambo Corporate Edition, which includes support and

hosting in their data centers. Mambo's architecture is based on [[PHP]] and [[MySQL]].

Recently, [[Mambo]] has had some internal

political turmoil, which resulted in most of the core developers forking the code base to create [[Joomla]]. Since the fork happened so recently, the applications are still nearly identical in function and capability.

Mambo's primary design goal is ease of use and they have accomplished this goal with a simple user interface and functionality

targeted toward managing corporate web sites and customer extranets. Mambo is quick and easy to set up - especially if the

customer is willing to use the presentation templates that come with the software. These templates are fairly design-neutral

and have the potential to work nicely with different corporate branding elements.

h1. Content Production/Editing

Content creators can create static pages and content items using the [[TinyMCE]] in-page [[WYSIWYG]] [[HTML editor]]. The major

difference between static pages and content items is that content items are slightly more structured with an introductory text

field, which is useful for listing pages. Images are associated with assets through the user interface rather than [[HTML]]

references. This helps Mambo maintain these relationships and prevent broken image references.

Users have a choice of editing content through the administrative interface or directly on the site. The general guideline is to

reserve use of the administrative interface for trained power users to prevent inadvertent mis-configuration. In-site editing is

sufficient to make textual changes and is foolproof but does not give access to metadata and advanced publishing features.

h1. Management

Assets within a Mambo site can be in one of two states: published or unpublished. The absence of content versioning makes

changes to published pages immediately visible upon save. However, an author is able to preview from the edit page to verify

changes before saving. Mambo has a simple locking mechanism to prevent users from trying to edit the same asset

simultaneously.

Assets are placed on a site by tagging them for the home page, associating them with menus that drive the

site's navigation, or assigning metadata and other categories for dynamic listing pages.

h1. Presentation

Mambo/Joomla! has a skins framework (called templates) that manages customizations to the presentation templates and allows an

administrator to toggle between skins. Installing a skin is easily done through the administrative interface. Templates are

written in pure [[PHP]], unlike the proprietary tagging languages that many other [[CMS]] use. This is an advantage of lessening the amount of specialized skill required to customize and manage a Mambo site.

The Mambo and Joomla communities have several

websites that host downloadable skins and there is an active marketplace for custom skin development.

Mambo has a flat URL structure and relies on query strings to request specific pages. There are some work-arounds available to create search-friendly

URLs but they are not core to the product.

Mambo comes with an internal search engine that can search through page-based content on the site. Other visitor-facing

functionality, such as blogs, a shopping cart, and a photo gallery can be added by downloading and installing modules (called

mambots) through the management user interface

h1. Community and Support

While the fork between [[Joomla]] and [[Mambo]] fragmented the community, the original community was large and vibrant enough

that both new communities are healthy. The Joomla project, in addition to taking a majority of core team members is also

drawing a sizable portion of the user and third party developer community. Mambo has backfilled with a new core development

team.

There are several Mambo and Joomla related third party sites that discuss Mambo and innovative ways to use it including

MamboForge and JoomlaForge which are like SourceForge for modules. Mambo Loveiv is a community driven site for public

relations and advocacy. Both Mambo and Joomla have active forums and do a decent job of notification of security

vulnerabilities.

The Joomla user forum is excellent with over 1,000 posts per day and a well organized moderator community.

Forum participants are generally very polite and helpful, a phenomenon that some attribute to the policy of using one’s own

picture in the forum profile which inserts a degree of personal accountability for what is said.

_( "Information from Optaros":http://www.optaros.com/pdf/optaros_cmsReport_012206_sgg.pdf )_

[[Mambo]] is a [[License:GPL|GPL]] licensed Web Content Management System developed and distributed by Australia-based [[Miro International]], a

provider of software and services for web publishing and collaboration. In addition to providing consulting services around Mambo, Miro International also provides a hosted Mambo service, called Mambo Corporate Edition, which includes support and

hosting in their data centers. Mambo's architecture is based on [[PHP]] and [[MySQL]].

Recently, [[Mambo]] has had some internal

political turmoil, which resulted in most of the core developers forking the code base to create [[Joomla]]. Since the fork happened so recently, the applications are still nearly identical in function and capability.

Mambo's primary design goal is ease of use and they have accomplished this goal with a simple user interface and functionality

targeted toward managing corporate web sites and customer extranets. Mambo is quick and easy to set up - especially if the

customer is willing to use the presentation templates that come with the software. These templates are fairly design-neutral

and have the potential to work nicely with different corporate branding elements.

h1. Content Production/Editing

Content creators can create static pages and content items using the [[TinyMCE]] in-page [[WYSIWYG]] [[HTML editor]]. The major

difference between static pages and content items is that content items are slightly more structured with an introductory text

field, which is useful for listing pages. Images are associated with assets through the user interface rather than [[HTML]]

references. This helps Mambo maintain these relationships and prevent broken image references.

Users have a choice of editing content through the administrative interface or directly on the site. The general guideline is to

reserve use of the administrative interface for trained power users to prevent inadvertent mis-configuration. In-site editing is

sufficient to make textual changes and is foolproof but does not give access to metadata and advanced publishing features.

h1. Management

Assets within a Mambo site can be in one of two states: published or unpublished. The absence of content versioning makes

changes to published pages immediately visible upon save. However, an author is able to preview from the edit page to verify

changes before saving. Mambo has a simple locking mechanism to prevent users from trying to edit the same asset

simultaneously.

Assets are placed on a site by tagging them for the home page, associating them with menus that drive the

site's navigation, or assigning metadata and other categories for dynamic listing pages.

h1. Presentation

Mambo/Joomla! has a skins framework (called templates) that manages customizations to the presentation templates and allows an

administrator to toggle between skins. Installing a skin is easily done through the administrative interface. Templates are

written in pure [[PHP]], unlike the proprietary tagging languages that many other [[CMS]] use. This is an advantage of lessening the amount of specialized skill required to customize and manage a Mambo site.

The Mambo and Joomla communities have several

websites that host downloadable skins and there is an active marketplace for custom skin development.

Mambo has a flat URL structure and relies on query strings to request specific pages. There are some work-arounds available to create search-friendly

URLs but they are not core to the product.

Mambo comes with an internal search engine that can search through page-based content on the site. Other visitor-facing

functionality, such as blogs, a shopping cart, and a photo gallery can be added by downloading and installing modules (called

mambots) through the management user interface

h1. Community and Support

While the fork between [[Joomla]] and [[Mambo]] fragmented the community, the original community was large and vibrant enough

that both new communities are healthy. The Joomla project, in addition to taking a majority of core team members is also

drawing a sizable portion of the user and third party developer community. Mambo has backfilled with a new core development

team.

There are several Mambo and Joomla related third party sites that discuss Mambo and innovative ways to use it including

MamboForge and JoomlaForge which are like SourceForge for modules. Mambo Loveiv is a community driven site for public

relations and advocacy. Both Mambo and Joomla have active forums and do a decent job of notification of security

vulnerabilities.

The Joomla user forum is excellent with over 1,000 posts per day and a well organized moderator community.

Forum participants are generally very polite and helpful, a phenomenon that some attribute to the policy of using one’s own

picture in the forum profile which inserts a degree of personal accountability for what is said.

_( "Information from Optaros":http://www.optaros.com/pdf/optaros_cmsReport_012206_sgg.pdf )_

[[Mambo]] is a [[License:GPL|GPL]] GPL licensed Web Content Management System developed and distributed by Australia-based [[Miro International]], a

provider of software and services for web publishing and collaboration. In addition to providing consulting services around Mambo, Miro International also provides a hosted Mambo service, called Mambo Corporate Edition, which includes support and

hosting in their data centers. Mambo's architecture is based on [[PHP]] and [[MySQL]].

Recently, [[Mambo]] has had some internal

political turmoil, which resulted in most of the core developers forking the code base to create [[Joomla]]. Since the fork happened so recently, the applications are still nearly identical in function and capability.

Mambo's primary design goal is ease of use and they have accomplished this goal with a simple user interface and functionality

targeted toward managing corporate web sites and customer extranets. Mambo is quick and easy to set up - especially if the

customer is willing to use the presentation templates that come with the software. These templates are fairly design-neutral

and have the potential to work nicely with different corporate branding elements.

h1. Content Production/Editing

Content creators can create static pages and content items using the [[TinyMCE]] in-page [[WYSIWYG]] [[HTML editor]]. The major

difference between static pages and content items is that content items are slightly more structured with an introductory text

field, which is useful for listing pages. Images are associated with assets through the user interface rather than [[HTML]]

references. This helps Mambo maintain these relationships and prevent broken image references.

Users have a choice of editing content through the administrative interface or directly on the site. The general guideline is to

reserve use of the administrative interface for trained power users to prevent inadvertent mis-configuration. In-site editing is

sufficient to make textual changes and is foolproof but does not give access to metadata and advanced publishing features.

h1. Management

Assets within a Mambo site can be in one of two states: published or unpublished. The absence of content versioning makes

changes to published pages immediately visible upon save. However, an author is able to preview from the edit page to verify

changes before saving. Mambo has a simple locking mechanism to prevent users from trying to edit the same asset

simultaneously.

Assets are placed on a site by tagging them for the home page, associating them with menus that drive the

site's navigation, or assigning metadata and other categories for dynamic listing pages.

h1. Presentation

Mambo/Joomla! has a skins framework (called templates) that manages customizations to the presentation templates and allows an

administrator to toggle between skins. Installing a skin is easily done through the administrative interface. Templates are

written in pure [[PHP]], unlike the proprietary tagging languages that many other [[CMS]] use. This is an advantage of lessening the amount of specialized skill required to customize and manage a Mambo site.

The Mambo and Joomla communities have several

websites that host downloadable skins and there is an active marketplace for custom skin development.

Mambo has a flat URL structure and relies on query strings to request specific pages. There are some work-arounds available to create search-friendly

URLs but they are not core to the product.

Mambo comes with an internal search engine that can search through page-based content on the site. Other visitor-facing

functionality, such as blogs, a shopping cart, and a photo gallery can be added by downloading and installing modules (called

mambots) through the management user interface

h1. Community and Support

While the fork between [[Joomla]] and [[Mambo]] fragmented the community, the original community was large and vibrant enough

that both new communities are healthy. The Joomla project, in addition to taking a majority of core team members is also

drawing a sizable portion of the user and third party developer community. Mambo has backfilled with a new core development

team.

There are several Mambo and Joomla related third party sites that discuss Mambo and innovative ways to use it including

MamboForge and JoomlaForge which are like SourceForge for modules. Mambo Loveiv is a community driven site for public

relations and advocacy. Both Mambo and Joomla have active forums and do a decent job of notification of security

vulnerabilities.

The Joomla user forum is excellent with over 1,000 posts per day and a well organized moderator community.

Forum participants are generally very polite and helpful, a phenomenon that some attribute to the policy of using one’s own

picture in the forum profile which inserts a degree of personal accountability for what is said.

_( "Information from Optaros":http://www.optaros.com/pdf/optaros_cmsReport_012206_sgg.pdf )_

[[Mambo]] is a GPL licensed Web Content Management System developed and distributed by Australia-based [[Miro International]], a

provider of software and services for web publishing and collaboration. In addition to providing consulting services around Mambo, Miro International also provides a hosted Mambo service, called Mambo Corporate Edition, which includes support and

hosting in their data centers. Mambo's architecture is based on [[PHP]] and [[MySQL]].

Recently, [[Mambo]] has had some internal

political turmoil, which resulted in most of the core developers forking the code base to create [[Joomla]]. Since the fork happened so recently, the applications are still nearly identical in function and capability.

Mambo's primary design goal is ease of use and they have accomplished this goal with a simple user interface and functionality

targeted toward managing corporate web sites and customer extranets. Mambo is quick and easy to set up - especially if the

customer is willing to use the presentation templates that come with the software. These templates are fairly design-neutral

and have the potential to work nicely with different corporate branding elements.

h1. Content Production/Editing

Content creators can create static pages and content items using the [[TinyMCE]] in-page [[WYSIWYG]] [[HTML editor]]. The major

difference between static pages and content items is that content items are slightly more structured with an introductory text

field, which is useful for listing pages. Images are associated with assets through the user interface rather than [[HTML]]

references. This helps Mambo maintain these relationships and prevent broken image references.

Users have a choice of editing content through the administrative interface or directly on the site. The general guideline is to

reserve use of the administrative interface for trained power users to prevent inadvertent mis-configuration. In-site editing is

sufficient to make textual changes and is foolproof but does not give access to metadata and advanced publishing features.

h1. Management

Assets within a Mambo site can be in one of two states: published or unpublished. The absence of content versioning makes

changes to published pages immediately visible upon save. However, an author is able to preview from the edit page to verify

changes before saving. Mambo has a simple locking mechanism to prevent users from trying to edit the same asset

simultaneously.

Assets are placed on a site by tagging them for the home page, associating them with menus that drive the

site's navigation, or assigning metadata and other categories for dynamic listing pages.

h1. Presentation

Mambo/Joomla! has a skins framework (called templates) that manages customizations to the presentation templates and allows an

administrator to toggle between skins. Installing a skin is easily done through the administrative interface. Templates are

written in pure [[PHP]], unlike the proprietary tagging languages that many other [[CMS]] use. This is an advantage of lessening the amount of specialized skill required to customize and manage a Mambo site.

The Mambo and Joomla communities have several

websites that host downloadable skins and there is an active marketplace for custom skin development.

Mambo has a flat URL structure and relies on query strings to request specific pages. There are some work-arounds available to create search-friendly

URLs but they are not core to the product.

Mambo comes with an internal search engine that can search through page-based content on the site. Other visitor-facing

functionality, such as blogs, a shopping cart, and a photo gallery can be added by downloading and installing modules (called

mambots) through the management user interface

h1. Community and Support

While the fork between [[Joomla]] and [[Mambo]] fragmented the community, the original community was large and vibrant enough

that both new communities are healthy. The Joomla project, in addition to taking a majority of core team members is also

drawing a sizable portion of the user and third party developer community. Mambo has backfilled with a new core development

team.

There are several Mambo and Joomla related third party sites that discuss Mambo and innovative ways to use it including

MamboForge and JoomlaForge which are like SourceForge for modules. Mambo Loveiv is a community driven site for public

relations and advocacy. Both Mambo and Joomla have active forums and do a decent job of notification of security

vulnerabilities.

The Joomla user forum is excellent with over 1,000 posts per day and a well organized moderator community.

Forum participants are generally very polite and helpful, a phenomenon that some attribute to the policy of using one’s own

picture in the forum profile which inserts a degree of personal accountability for what is said.

_( "Information _("Information from Optaros":http://www.optaros.com/pdf/optaros_cmsReport_012206_sgg.pdf )_ Optaros":http://www.optaros.com/pdf/optaros_cmsReport_012206_sgg.pdf)_

[[Mambo]] is a GPL licensed Web Content Management System developed and distributed by Australia-based [[Miro International]], a

provider of software and services for web publishing and collaboration. In addition to providing consulting services around Mambo, Miro International also provides a hosted Mambo service, called Mambo Corporate Edition, which includes support and

hosting in their data centers. Mambo's architecture is based on [[PHP]] and [[MySQL]].

Recently, [[Mambo]] has had some internal

political turmoil, which resulted in most of the core developers forking the code base to create [[Joomla]]. Since the fork happened so recently, the applications are still nearly identical in function and capability.

Mambo's primary design goal is ease of use and they have accomplished this goal with a simple user interface and functionality

targeted toward managing corporate web sites and customer extranets. Mambo is quick and easy to set up - especially if the

customer is willing to use the presentation templates that come with the software. These templates are fairly design-neutral

and have the potential to work nicely with different corporate branding elements.

h1. Content Production/Editing

Content creators can create static pages and content items using the [[TinyMCE]] in-page [[WYSIWYG]] [[HTML editor]]. The major

difference between static pages and content items is that content items are slightly more structured with an introductory text

field, which is useful for listing pages. Images are associated with assets through the user interface rather than [[HTML]]

references. This helps Mambo maintain these relationships and prevent broken image references.

Users have a choice of editing content through the administrative interface or directly on the site. The general guideline is to

reserve use of the administrative interface for trained power users to prevent inadvertent mis-configuration. In-site editing is

sufficient to make textual changes and is foolproof but does not give access to metadata and advanced publishing features.

h1. Management

Assets within a Mambo site can be in one of two states: published or unpublished. The absence of content versioning makes

changes to published pages immediately visible upon save. However, an author is able to preview from the edit page to verify

changes before saving. Mambo has a simple locking mechanism to prevent users from trying to edit the same asset

simultaneously.

Assets are placed on a site by tagging them for the home page, associating them with menus that drive the

site's navigation, or assigning metadata and other categories for dynamic listing pages.

h1. Presentation

Mambo/Joomla! has a skins framework (called templates) that manages customizations to the presentation templates and allows an

administrator to toggle between skins. Installing a skin is easily done through the administrative interface. Templates are

written in pure [[PHP]], unlike the proprietary tagging languages that many other [[CMS]] use. This is an advantage of lessening the amount of specialized skill required to customize and manage a Mambo site.

The Mambo and Joomla communities have several

websites that host downloadable skins and there is an active marketplace for custom skin development.

Mambo has a flat URL structure and relies on query strings to request specific pages. There are some work-arounds available to create search-friendly

URLs but they are not core to the product.

Mambo comes with an internal search engine that can search through page-based content on the site. Other visitor-facing

functionality, such as blogs, a shopping cart, and a photo gallery can be added by downloading and installing modules (called

mambots) through the management user interface

h1. Community and Support

While the fork between [[Joomla]] and [[Mambo]] fragmented the community, the original community was large and vibrant enough

that both new communities are healthy. The Joomla project, in addition to taking a majority of core team members is also

drawing a sizable portion of the user and third party developer community. Mambo has backfilled with a new core development

team.

There are several Mambo and Joomla related third party sites that discuss Mambo and innovative ways to use it including

MamboForge and JoomlaForge which are like SourceForge for modules. Mambo Loveiv is a community driven site for public

relations and advocacy. Both Mambo and Joomla have active forums and do a decent job of notification of security

vulnerabilities.

The Joomla user forum is excellent with over 1,000 posts per day and a well organized moderator community.

Forum participants are generally very polite and helpful, a phenomenon that some attribute to the policy of using one’s own

picture in the forum profile which inserts a degree of personal accountability for what is said.

_("Information from Optaros":http://www.optaros.com/pdf/optaros_cmsReport_012206_sgg.pdf)