Mambo CMS looks Very Attractive

I am new to CMS. I never really used a CMS before, so all of the things involved in using one are a foreign thought to me. I was doing some searching on Friday afternoon, first for an ASP.Net CMS, then a free one, and eventually came across Mambo. This one is Open Source… (and therefore free) and rather powerful. It uses PHP and mySQL and is cross-platform.

The problem was that I did not have a place to host Mambo. I looked around for free Mambo hosting on Google, but didn’t come up with much. Eventually, a friend of mine told me about 100webspace.com, a decent free (and ad-supported) host that meets the requirements.

On Saturday night I uploaded all of the files and spent about 15 minutes first getting it up. the majot problem was with the MySQL database, which Mambo couldn’t connect to. I fiddled around with various settings and finally got it right.

I spent today setting up and customizing Mambo, installing templates, publishing and un-publishing modules, and playing around with a half-dozen other things. Mambo includes decent documentation, so once you get used to the way things work around Mambo, reference is always one click away (or at least in the administrator console).