Free Tutorials for the Mambo CMS

• Administrator Tips

  General tips to help the Mambo site owner or administrator, that are not specific to Mambo.

  • Aug 29 . Creating a Custom 404 Error Page with cPanel
  • Jul 30 . Managing Your Mambo Database Using phpMyAdmin
  • Jul 20 . Using a Custom 404 Error Page with IIS
  • Jul 19 . Create a Custom 404 Error Page for Mambo
  • Jun 18 . Turn Off Directory Listing
  • May 06 . How to Use FTP
  • Apr 30 . How to Turn Off MySQL Strict Mode
  • Apr 23 . Finding Out Your Version of PHP
  • Apr 03 . Before you start developing your site - PLAN!

• Performance

  Tutorials and guides on how to improve the performance of your Mambo CMS site.

  • Jun 16 . Cache Your Favicon to Speed Up Your Site
  • Jun 14 . Are Searchbots Killing Your Bandwidth?
  • May 24 . What Does "This Site is Temporarily Unavailable" Mean?
  • May 12 . Improving Mambo Performance

• Search Engine Optimisation

  Optimising your Mambo site for search engines and for effective internet marketing.

  • Sep 02 . Applying Header Tags to your Mambo Page Titles
  • Jun 22 . Mambo RSS Feeds - Planning Delivery
  • Jun 20 . Ad Targeting with AdSense
  • Jun 12 . Telling Search Engines Where to Go
  • Jun 09 . Common Causes of Duplicate Content
  • Jun 06 . How to Avoid Duplicate Content Issues With Mambo
  • Jun 05 . Don't Use Page Titles in Your Mambo Content
  • May 25 . Search Engine Spider View of Your Mambo Site
  • May 13 . Search Engine Optimisation Within Mambo
  • May 07 . When Should I Start Working on SEO For My Site?

• Security Tips

  Learn how to keep your Mambo site secure with these security tips.

  • Jul 09 . Upgrading Mambo
  • May 30 . Checking That Mambo Extensions are Safe to Use
  • May 05 . How to Make a Strong Password
  • Apr 16 . Remove Your Installation Directory
  • Apr 09 . Most Important Security Tip - Use a Good Web Host

• Talk Mambo

  News, views and general talk about Mambo.

  • Aug 02 . Calling All Users of Mambo - Nominate Mambo Today
  • Jul 26 . Life's Like That
  • Jul 06 . Change to Feeds
  • Jun 10 . Free SEO Audit for Your Mambo Site
  • May 27 . Mambo 4.6.4 is released
  • May 22 . Release of Jobline component for Mambo

• Templates

  Mambo templates, tips, tricks and guides on how to build a template for Mambo.

  • Jul 15 . Top Accessibility Testing Tools for Web Designers
  • Jul 05 . Top 5 Font Tools for Web Designers
  • Jul 03 . Top 10 Colour Tools for Web Designers
  • Jun 29 . Top 5 Firefox Add-Ons for Web Designers
  • Jun 26 . Making Your Mambo IE6 Template Work With IE7
  • Jun 04 . Use CSS Shorthand to Reduce File Size
  • Jun 03 . Mambo PHP Cheat Sheet
  • Jun 02 . Create Your Own Mambo Template
  • Jun 01 . Creating the templateDetails.xml File
  • May 21 . Mambo CSS Guide
  • May 20 . Blank template for Mambo
  • May 08 . How to Change the Footer Text on Your Mambo Web Site

• User Tutorials

  Guides, how-to's and tutorials for making the most of using the Mambo CMS.

  • Aug 19 . Why HTML Heading Tags Are So Important
  • Jul 29 . Upgrading Old Versions of Mambo
  • Jun 24 . Embedding Videos within Mambo Using Validating Code
  • Jun 15 . Intro Text and Main Text
  • May 31 . What is a Document Outline?
  • May 29 . Mambo SEF URL's - Should You Use Them?
  • May 28 . Anatomy of the Mambo URL
  • May 26 . Choosing the Right Domain Name
  • May 18 . Creating Your Own Favicon For Your Mambo site
  • May 17 . What "This Category is Currently Empty" Means
  • May 16 . How to Recover Forgotten Administrator Password
  • May 15 . How to Set Your Home Page in Mambo
  • May 14 . Working With META tags in Mambo
  • May 11 . Installing Mambo
  • May 10 . Create a MySQL Database For Mambo
  • May 09 . Preparing to Install Mambo
  • May 04 . Guide to .htaccess
  • May 03 . Incorrect Itemid's in Mambo and What to Do About Them
  • Apr 27 . How to Determine Absolute Path
  • Apr 20 . How to Resolve Session Save Path Errors
  • Apr 13 . What You Need to Know When Working With Mambo Copyright Notices
  • Apr 06 . Mambo System Requirements