Mambo - The (almost) Perfect CMS
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I started using Mambo, an open-source content management system, for my own personal web site, after discovering it while exploring CMSs on Wikipedia. After first installing it, I was intimidated by the abundance of menus and icons scattered around the interface. A small while later, I learned the ins and outs of how everything worked, from menus to components to modules. There are many decent templates for Mambo available, but I can’t really find any (if you have any suggestions, make a comment below). When it comes to components, there are ones that do the most bizarre things. I found a school component, which organizes students, classes, and tests. Of the more common ones are myPMS, a private messaging system. Modules are little widgets that sit on the top, sides and bottom of pages (as defined by your template). Mambots are little programs that search through the contents of text and can replace certain strings with images, code highlighting and more. Templates are - you guessed it - the skin of your site, defines the look and feel of your pages and also the possible module positions. I do have some complaints: I wish that the administrator console would be somewhat faster and that good templates would be easier to find, but pretty much everything else is good. My conclusion: Mambo is an excellent product, with just a few rough edges.


2 Comments
tuxn8r
April 10th, 2006
at 7:48am
Mambo is great! Unfortunately, there is very little documentation for creating your own modules, components, etc. For the speed of the Mambo Admin pages, I found that Joomla, a derivative of Mambo, actually loads admin pages amazingly fast compared to Mambo.
Michael
January 2nd, 2007
at 8:47pm
I now use Joomla for one of my sites, and find that it has a few slight improvements. It’s not significantly different at this point, but I have tested Joomla 1.5 betas and nightly build, and I must say that they are extremely impressive.