Mambo News

What is Mambo?

Mambo is a full-featured, award-winning content management system 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, ecommerce 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.

Mambo is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet and with almost 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.

If you've read anything at all about content management systems (CMS), you'll probably know at least three things: Content Management Systems are the most exciting way to do business, Content Management Systems can be really, I mean really, complicated and lastly Content Management Systems are absolutely, outrageously, often unaffordably expensive.

Over the past eight years Mambo has changed all that ... Mambo is different from the normal models for CMS software. For a start, it's not complicated. Mambo has been developed for the masses. It's licensed under the GNU/GPL license, is free, easy to install and administer, and reliable.

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.