adlep
Diamond Member
After about 3 years with a static CSS layout, I have decided to implement a CMS for my site.
After doing a research on Open Source CMS systems on http://www.opensourcecms.com/ (great site), I have decided to go with the Mambo CMS, just because they offer a lot of very stable and useful add-ons, modules, and excellent forums. Recently, the original Mambo Developer team has decided to create their own spinn off Mambo called Joomla, but for now, both CMSes are esentially the same.
When I started - about a month ago, I didn't know that much about CMSes. But because of the Mambo & Joomla forums, I was able to pickup it up relatively quickly (I think 😀).
When playing with Mambo, consider installing it locally, right on your Windows XP machine, using MSAS by MamboSolutions
it is a great and fast way of getting Apache, PHP, MySQL, and Mambo installed on your PC without a lot of commitment.
MamboSolutions has also a great tutorial on how to create templates for Mambo, although most of the Mambo templates still use table layouts instead of CSS layouts 🙁
They also have an additional tutorial on how to transplant your "local" site to your Web hosting service - tutorial, although make sure to go through the entire tutorial FIRST 🙂
What else?
I really like 404sef module for creating Search Engine Friendly URLs.
Also do not forget to creat and submit your custom sitemap.xml to google new program called Google Sitemaps
Without further delay, let me introduce:
http://www.computerfix.org
I am NOT a web designer so practically everybody can achieve results similar to mine!
Good Luck
Mambo/Joomla ON
Cliffnotes:
- I didn't know that much about web sites 2 months ago
- Had a great experience with Mambo/Joomla CMS.
- It is very easy to use and their community support is great.
- My new website Computer Fix is created in Mambo.
- Anybody can make deacent looking web sites with Mambo!
Let me know what you think about my new site 😀
After doing a research on Open Source CMS systems on http://www.opensourcecms.com/ (great site), I have decided to go with the Mambo CMS, just because they offer a lot of very stable and useful add-ons, modules, and excellent forums. Recently, the original Mambo Developer team has decided to create their own spinn off Mambo called Joomla, but for now, both CMSes are esentially the same.
When I started - about a month ago, I didn't know that much about CMSes. But because of the Mambo & Joomla forums, I was able to pickup it up relatively quickly (I think 😀).
When playing with Mambo, consider installing it locally, right on your Windows XP machine, using MSAS by MamboSolutions
it is a great and fast way of getting Apache, PHP, MySQL, and Mambo installed on your PC without a lot of commitment.
MamboSolutions has also a great tutorial on how to create templates for Mambo, although most of the Mambo templates still use table layouts instead of CSS layouts 🙁
They also have an additional tutorial on how to transplant your "local" site to your Web hosting service - tutorial, although make sure to go through the entire tutorial FIRST 🙂
What else?
I really like 404sef module for creating Search Engine Friendly URLs.
Also do not forget to creat and submit your custom sitemap.xml to google new program called Google Sitemaps
Without further delay, let me introduce:
http://www.computerfix.org
I am NOT a web designer so practically everybody can achieve results similar to mine!
Good Luck
Mambo/Joomla ON
Cliffnotes:
- I didn't know that much about web sites 2 months ago
- Had a great experience with Mambo/Joomla CMS.
- It is very easy to use and their community support is great.
- My new website Computer Fix is created in Mambo.
- Anybody can make deacent looking web sites with Mambo!
Let me know what you think about my new site 😀
