Waiting for Joomla 1.5 Stable

After months of not touching my school’s Web site, there is finally hope as to when things will get rolling again. Currently, I am running it on Mambo 4.6.x series, which is deeply incompatible with many components and such. Too keep at least the SEF URLs running, I had to hack up one of the […]

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Common (but Serious) Page Design Flaws

Somehow, I have a knack for finding the ups and downs of the design and architecture of Web sites. Some sites (like Gmail, a true G-dsend for nerds like me) really work well and look nice, but others (like Boost Mobile’s site) are horrible. How is it possible to ruin a design? Keep reading.
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Joomla: Content Management For Any Level

Having been a user of Joomla, and it’s predecessor, Mambo, I can easily tell you that the two products are very powerful. Mambo and Joomla are content management systems that help even novice users manage the content on their sites easily. In this review I will be focusing on the strengths of the powerful Joomla […]

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Michael P. Web Solutions

Everyone has some kind of talent (although, I admit, some people’s talents aren’t always useful or appreciated, without going into specific details). One of my talents is working with the Mambo and Joomla content managment systems, and the Simple Machines Forum package. But what good is a talent if nobody knows about it? In this […]

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Mambo - The (almost) Perfect CMS

Perhaps my favorite CMS, I found millions of things done right (unlike Microsft).

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Launch of My Mambo-Powered Site

After a week and a half of downloading and uploading templates, modules and components, my new site is finally up. You can visit it by clicking this link [broken link removed]. You’ll notice that it has a nice design (from a template), a login… form, and a poll. The sond two of these features are […]

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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 […]

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