Content Management System - CMS

Mambo Content Management System

Content Management: Grow Your Own Website Community

Another option Website Source offers is Mambo Open Source, which is deep in features and offers a variety of means to communicate on the web. This content manager makes oversight of your on-line enterprise easy. Track who’s saying what, where your content appears and who’s linking back to your site via bulletin board, chatroom, RSS feed or other on-line communications.

Content Management Systems (CMS) are included with every shared website hosting plan we offer. They are a part of Website Source Hosting "Easy Apps" group of free applications.

What is a content management system?

A content management system (CMS) is a computer software system for organizing and facilitating collaborative creation of documents and other content. A content management system is frequently a web application used for managing websites and web content, though in many cases, content management systems require special client software for editing and constructing articles. The market for content management systems remains fragmented, with many open-source and proprietary solutions available.

Mambo is a business-oriented open source content management system written in PHP and uses the MySQL database. Initially developed by Miro International, Mambo can be hosted on Linux, Unix, Windows and Macintosh OS X servers - in fact as long as it runs PHP and MySQL, it can run Mambo. Mambo is the perfect solution for developers and novice users alike who demand a simple yet elegant way to deploy professional websites rapidly.

 

First and foremost, Mambo is a Content Management System (CMS). It is the engine behind your website that simplifies the creation, management, and sharing of content.

The goal of the Mambo project is to meet most of the requirements highlighted in the above article. As each day in development goes by we are getting nearer and nearer, while at the same time building a solid core which can be extended by third party developers.

In the hands of a custom developer, this makes Mambo a powerful platform for a wide variety of Internet applications that go far above and beyond the simple creation of content.

What Mambo isn't!

Mambo is not a typical "portal" solution.

While Mambo can be modified or extended to provide this style of site this is not the goal of the project. Mambo is aimed at the more squarely at corporate websites or sites for small to medium businesses, families or personal sites.

The Mambo Development Team focuses on building a solid application framework rather than on add-ons that are typically found in many portal solutions. This keeps the Mambo core extremely lightweight and efficient, thus making it easier for anybody to extend Mambo through custom third party component and modules that directly serve their needs.