Aug 02, 2006 at 11:20 PM

Books on Mambo

There exist a number of helpful books on the Mambo open source CMS. This page lists the titles of books that we know about and gives basic information about each one.

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Learning Mambo - A Step by Step Tutorial

The newest title from Packt, this book takes you from zero to website in a series of coherant easy to follow step. A well-structured and example-rich tutorial to creating websites using Mambo that is perfect for new Mambo users needing a clear a reassuring guide to this simple and yet powerful PHP and MySQL-based Open Source website content management system. A good "getting started" book. Deals with version 4.6.

   

Mambo Visual Blueprint

The full title of this work: Mambo: Your Visual Blueprint for Building and Maintaining Websites on the Mambo Open Source CMS. The book is published by Wiley & Sons and takes a step by step task-oriented "how-to" approach to using Mambo. This is an administrators; manual, not for programmers looking to dive into the Mambo codebase. Published July 2006. Deals with versions 4.5.4 and 4.6.

   

Mastering Mambo

The full title of this work: Mastering Mambo: E-commerce, Templates, Module Development, SEO, Security and Performance. A more advanced text targeted more at advanced users and developers. Covers some of the most common extensions, as well. Published December 2005, Deals with ver. 4.5.x sites. Published by Packt Publishing.

   

Building Websites With Mambo

The full title of this work: Building Websites With Mambo: A Fast Paced Introductory Tutorial. This book is a fast paced tutorial to creating a website using Mambo. If you have never used Mambo, or even any web content management system before, then this book will walk you through each step in a friendly and accessible way. From installation, to initial set up and content entry and then on to customization for your own look and feel, this book will get you to a stable and working Mambo based web site fast. You don�t have to be an experienced web developer or designer to get a great looking site with a full set of functions using this book and Mambo. This book will guide you through every step. Published August 2005. Deals with ver. 4.5.x series sites. Published by Packt Publishing.

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