1.What is Mambo?
2.What can I use Mambo for?
3.Mambo Feature Overview
4.How to use Mambo Modules?

What is Mambo?
Mambo is a full-featured, award-winning content management system (CMS) 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, e-commerce 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. With over 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, and, best of all, it is free to use and to modify under its open source GNU/ General Public License.

These are some of the advantages to using Mambo:

• It is easy to set up and use;
• It has a simple and unique Administration interface to manage Web site content;
• It is flexible enough to create custom Web site designs using the template system;
• It is easy to add content and images;
• It is designed with simplicity and flexibility for everyone. From the non-technical Webmaster to the advanced Programmer, it is designed to be simple to use and easy to extend.

What can I use Mambo for?
Mambo can be used for many different types of Web sites, such as:

• Portals
• Commercial Web sites
• Intranet / Extranet
• Non-profit Web sites
• Personal Web sites
• Integrated Flash Web sites
  

The key feature is the ability to allow any authorized user to add and edit content directly on the Web. Multiple people can manage content within a Mambo Web site. They do not need to know any programming languages, such as HTML, to update their site because an 'online WYSIWYG editor' (What You See Is What You Get) is included for formatting the text and inserting images. There is no need to 'upload' your documents with hard to understand FTP (File Transfer Protocol) programs. Just Save and Publish your content and your Web page is online for everyone to see!

Mambo Feature Overview
Drupal and all contributed files hosted on Drupal.org are licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. That means you are free to download, reuse, modify, and distribute any files hosted on Drupal.org's CVS repository under the terms of either the GPL version 2 or version 3, and to run Drupal in combination with any code with any license that is compatible with either versions 2 or 3, such as the Affero General Public License (AGPL) version


How to use Mambo Modules?
Modules: small blocks that can displayed in various spots around (and in!) your main content.. how to use them?

There are two main ways to create modules, two main ways to use your modules, and many ways to change a page look with their settings.

Creation:

* install new ones via the Installer => Modules link for pre 4.6, and through the Universal Installer for Mambo 4.6.x
* create your own from the admin interface.
NOTE: If you want to use code such as the object tag for an SWF or an image tag etc, it's best to disable your editor (Site => Global Configuration => Default WYSIWYG Editor : No) before pasting the code into the custom box!

Usage:

* load the into a module position coded into your site's template
* load all published modules assigned to a certain position into a content item via a mambot call.

When editing a module from the Module Manager screen by clicking its name, you can very easily assign or change any of the existing positions. If this position is present in your template, all modules assigned to it and published will be shown in the order they have in the Module Manager screen. Which positions are available to you, and where they are located in the template is very easy to see via the Site => Preview => Inline with Positions menu.

Modules can also be loaded into your content items via the { mosLoadModules (positionName) } call, so for example you publish the poll module to position left (and no other module!), and then load it into an article with a poll corresponding to the subject.

Settings:

* set the access level to "registered" and the module will only be visible to logged in members of your site
* change the module position, and your page will change accordingly
* assign a module only to selected pages by selecting them on the list of existing menu items on the parameters screen, and it will show up only on these -magic!
* add a sticky intro text into a custom module, create a position for it in your template above the main content.
Easy to update from admin, easy to unpublish or publish as needed with just one click ...

As you can see, modules are very flexible, easy to add/remove/hide, so use them extensively!