Mambo

After creating a new menu in Mambo, you may want to activate that particualar menu as part of your site. This article will demonstrate how to add a new menu to the default template in your Mambo application. How to activate a custom menu in Mambo First, log into your Mambo admin interface   From Read More >

Mambo has a built in feature that allows you to add a contact form to your website. In this tutorial, we will learn how to create the contact form and add it to the sidebar menu in Mambo. Steps to add a contact form Log into your Mambo Dashboard. Go to Components > Contacts > Read More >

When working within the Mambo application, you will discover there are several premade menus. You can also create your own custom menu for use on your site. Below are the instructions for creating a new menu for your Mambo site within the administration back office. Creating a new menu in Mambo Log into your Mambo Read More >

When you first install Mambo, it will allow users to register on your website. You can change this setting in the Admin Panel, if you do not want to let users register.   In this tutorial we will show you how to turn User Registration on and off in mambo. Here is a picture of Read More >

It is good practice to change your passwords frequently to prevent a password compromise. You can change the Administrators password in the users section of Mambo. If you lost your [password and cannot log in to your Mambo Dashboard at all, you can change the password in PhpMyAdmin. This article will explain how to change Read More >

In this article I’m going to explain how you can easily add an iframe to one of your Mambo pages. An iframe element allows you to embed a remote web page into another page. This is great if you want to display content from another website within one of your pages, but you didn’t want Read More >

When you link to pages in your Mambo site, you will need to use the Mambo WYSIWYG editor to prevent your links from breaking. This is because when you make links to your own pages in Mambo, you may update the page you linked to. If you update the page and not the link, the Read More >

When you are creating a page, often you will want to add an picture. In this tutorial we will show you how to add an Image to a page in Mambo.  Upload the image you want to add to the page using FTP. If you are not familiar with the directory structure, I recommend reading this Read More >

When building your website with Mambo, there may arise a need to configure the site to connect to an SMTP server for sending email. On some older servers, the PHP mail(); function is disabled. To work around this, you can set up your software to use SMP. Below are the steps to set up your Read More >

In this article I’ll be teaching you how to add an additional language pack to your Mambo installation, which will allow your Mambo site to be displayed in another language rather than just English. Adding additional language packs to Mambo Login to your Mambo admin dashboard. In the top menu, hover over Installers and then Read More >

Stopping spammers from hitting forms in Mambo can be done using the Captcha option that is integrated into the Mambo administration back end.  The following article will show how to activate the Captcha option and how it appears within a website form. Activating Captcha within the Mambo Administration Back End Login to the Mambo Administration Read More >

It is very common for site owners to change the look and feel of their sites from the default. As a result, there are many templates on the web for most programs, Mambo is no different. This tutorial will guide you on how to install a new template for your Mambo website. Installing and activating Read More >

Mambo has a wide variety of plugins, but analyzing its traffic is often best done with a program like Google Analytics.  This allows you to evaluate website traffic in order to help determine the areas of the site which may need improvement.  The following article explains how to add Google Analytics in to your Mambo Read More >

After installing the Mambo application on your hosting account, your first task will be to log into the admin area for the first time. Below are the steps necessary to accessing the admininstration interface for Mambo. Logging into your Mambo admin interface Using your web browser, visit your website URL. You may log in from Read More >

In this tutorial we will show you how to create a new page in Mambo. New pages can be created in specific sections or categories in Mambo. In my tests I am adding a page to the Getting Started section. In the Image below you will notice there are currently only 3 pages in the Getting Started Read More >

Mambo is widely used and powerful content management system  The following article shows how to use Softaculous to find and install Mambo.    Setting Up Mambo using Softaculous  Login to the Cpanel Scroll down to Software/Services and click on the SOFTACULOUS icon. The Softaculous installation program will open and yuo will see a list of Read More >