Learning Mambo: A Step-by-Step Tutorial to Building Your Web
TITLE : Learning Mambo: A Step-by-Step Tutorial to Building Your Website (Paperback)
AUTHOR : by Douglas Paterson (Author)
PUBLISHER : Packt Publishing publisher
ISBN : 1904811620
EDITION : 1st
PUB DATE : December 22, 2006
LANGUAGE : English
FORMAT : PDF
SIZE : 02 x 5.00 MB

A well-structured and example-rich tutorial to creating websites using
Mambo that is perfect for new Mambo users needing a clear a reassuring
guide to this simple and yet powerful PHP and MySQL-based Open Source
website content management system. Mambo is a mature and fully featured
open-source Content Management System (CMS). Mambo is easy to use at the
entry level for creating basic websites, while having the power and
flexibility to support complex web applications. Mambo implements the
core requirements of a full-featured CMS. It has a powerful and
extensible templating system, user access control, content approval,
rich administrative control, and content display scheduling. New
features and extensions are added to the core system, with many more
being available and supported by the community. This book targets the
4.6 release of Mambo, and takes you through creating an example website.
Beginning with a discussion of the requirements for the example site,
the site unfolds as you progress through the chapters, learning more
about Mambo, and how to complete the tasks needed to build the site.
You'll see the basic configuration options for setting up your site, and
learn about Mambo's main elements as you work your way around its
web-based administration area. As soon as you're familiar with the
general principles and behavior of Mambo, it's time to pile on the
features for your site; adding modules and components, uploading images
and other resources, and managing templates. You will learn to use
Mambo's powerful Universal Installer to effortlessly install add-ons
that are not part of the standard distribution. The pages on your site,
how they are displayed, and who can see them, are determined by Mambo's
menu system. With many examples of the different types of menu items,
the book will lead you through the important tasks of creating menu
items, and help you understand how these choices structure the pages on
your site and ease your visitors' navigation. You will see how to
organize and enter your content into Mambo, and how to manage and edit
this organization and your pieces of content. As we tackle user
management, you will see how Mambo allows you to set up user accounts
with different permissions, including a set of special users who can
author or edit content. We also take a detailed look at the
notifications that occur when content is submitted by these users. This
analysis reveals how the Mambo publishing workflow process works, and
how you can exploit it effectively. Moving on from the standard Mambo
features, we look at some third-party extensions that add powerful
discussion forum, event scheduling, and image gallery features to your
site. To create a new look for your site, you create a new template. We
cover this, and even if you're no expert in web design, you will be
taken through a number of basic tasks to create an impressive new design
for your site. Written in a clear, easy-to-read style, the book provides
a tutorial for setting up a Mambo website. Each topic is tackled in a
practical way with many examples and tasks to develop your skills. A
realistic example website is developed incrementally through the book,
showing each step in detail. This book is suitable for web developers,
designers, webmasters, content editors, and marketing professionals who
want develop a fully featured web presence in a simple and
straightforward process. No prior knowledge of Mambo is expected, and it
does not require any detailed knowledge of programming or web
development. Any IT-confident individual will be able to use the book to
produce an impressive website.

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