Anna's Mambo Tips

These tips are a very helpful guide to new users. They were originally written by Anna Callahan (http://www.myideal.net/) and posted on the Mamboserver forum. This Mambo walkthrough is updated by contributors but we are keeping the name, "Anna's Mambo Tips" as a thank you to Anna (jazztpt) for putting so many new users on the right track.

NOTE!
This walkthrough was written for Mambo 4.5.2. While some key concepts remain the same, much has changed. Many of the tips here do not apply to Mambo versions higher than Mambo 4.5.6.

New User Walkthrough

Mambo makes the difficult parts of building and running a high-powered web site easy. That's why so many people use it! But if you have never used a content management system before, it also seems to make a lot of easy things difficult. These tips are designed for someone who doesn't know anything about content management systems. I'd never heard of one before installing Mambo (when it was Mambo). If you're like me, you'll find these instructions VERY helpful. I don't explain anything to you that you could see by poking around the administration page - go to the official help site for that. What I will tell you is how to think about your site before designing it with Mambo, and how to get from point A ("I want to ...") to point B ("here's how").

This tutorial changes occasionally, but here is a list of the chapters so far:

Note: If you want newsfeeds, polls, or blogs on your site, Mambo is great! But you must expect to spend time learning it. Just remember that the most difficult part is the beginning, and you won't have any part of your site up quickly, even with the best tutorials. But speaking of the best tutorials, you should also go to this thread to see a list of other tutorials that have been written for Mambo.

Next tip: How to Think About Content Management