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What is Mambo?

Mambo is a full-featured, award-winning content management system (CMS) that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. It is used all over the world to power government portals, corporate intranets and extranets, e-commerce sites, nonprofit outreach, schools, church, and community sites. Mambo's "power in simplicity" also makes it the CMS of choice for many small businesses and personal sites. With over 8 million downloads, Mambo is arguably one of the most popular CMS's in the world. Mambo is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable, and, best of all, it is free to use and to modify under its open source GNU/ General Public License.

These are some of the advantages to using Mambo:

• It is easy to set up and use;
• It has a simple and unique Administration interface to manage Web site content;
• It is flexible enough to create custom Web site designs using the template system;
• It is easy to add content and images;
• It is designed with simplicity and flexibility for everyone. From the non-technical Webmaster to the advanced Programmer, it is designed to be simple to use and easy to extend.

What can I use Mambo for?

Mambo can be used for many different types of Web sites, such as:

• Portals
• Commercial Web sites
• Intranet / Extranet
• Non-profit Web sites
• Personal Web sites
• Integrated Flash Web sites
  

The key feature is the ability to allow any authorized user to add and edit content directly on the Web. Multiple people can manage content within a Mambo Web site. They do not need to know any programming languages, such as HTML, to update their site because an 'online WYSIWYG editor' (What You See Is What You Get) is included for formatting the text and inserting images. There is no need to 'upload' your documents with hard to understand FTP (File Transfer Protocol) programs. Just Save and Publish your content and your Web page is online for everyone to see!

Feature Overview

Here is an overview of just some of the features included in Mambo:

• Completely database driven site engine;
• Internationalisation (UTF-8);
• Localisation (interface translation);
• Page caching mechanism to improve performance on busy sites;
• Advertising management (banners, etc);
• News, products or services sections fully editable and manageable;
• Topics sections can be added to by contributing authors;
• Media (images, documents) upload and management.;
• Content publication scheduling;
• Content syndication (RSS);
• Search engine friendly (SEF) URL's;
• Dynamic Forum/Poll/Voting booth for on-the-spot results;
• Fully customisable layouts;
• Simple but powerful template system (no complex templating syntax to learn);
• Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX server, Solaris and AIX

Extensive Administration:

• Friendly Admin interface with point and click functionality;
• Hierarchical user access groups;
• Object hierarchy - as many sections, departments, divisions and pages as you want;
• Archive manager. Put your old articles into cold storage rather than throw them out
• Multiple WYSIWYG content editor support;
• Content macro language (aka mambots);
• Advanced package/add-on/template deployment system.

New features and improvements are being added all the time. Mambo development is collaborative. Working with the community to identify areas of improvement and additional functionality that is needed in this fast-paced world of the Internet, Mambo retains its position as one of the leading open source content management systems in the world.

Getting Help with Mambo

You are currently viewing the Mambo peer-support forums. Here, you may ask and answer questions in a friendly community of Mambo users who volunteer their time (unpaid) to help other Mambo users. All contributors to Mambo, whether on the forums or developing code, are volunteers. If you are looking for commercial Mambo support you can find that too, through our network of Mambo professionals.

For Mambo documentation please see the knowledgebases at http://mambo-support.org. These are available in several different languages. The Mambo Manual, our documentation wiki is a source for more detailed articles and how-to's. If you are looking for answers to questions please make sure you check our documentation resouces and also do a search on the forums - there is a good chance your question has already been answered.

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