Mambo is holding The Great Mambo Graphics Competition and inviting entries from all graphic designers and artists who wish to contribute to improving the look and promotional graphics for the Mambo open source content management system. There are prizes for the best entries.

In this tutorial we look at using a Mambo function called mosCountModules to display modules only when there is content within the module to display on your Mambo web site. This is particularly useful when you want to hide empty modules but want things such as banners, adverts, etc to display when there is something to display.

Web site accessibility is about making your web site accessible to everyone, regardless of ability. A structurally sound web site not only brings benefits because more visitors can access your content but also provides SEO advantages. Search engine robots need to make sense of your site in the same way a blind users needs to read your site. In this tutorial I provide my list of the top accessibility testing tools.

If you have ever tried to find the name of a font you really like, or tried to find just the right font to use on your website then this list of my top 5 font tools for web designers may be just what you are looking for. These will help you create an amazing template for your Mambo web site.

Colour is an important part of any web design but determining the right colour scheme to use on the web can be difficult. This is where handy online tools come in. With the right tools you do not need a background in graphics design for web technologies in order to find just the right combination of colours that will work for all visitors, across different browsers. Here is my top 10 list.

Many Mambo templates were designed to work with Internet Explorer 6 and incompatibility between IE6 and Internet Explorer 7 can cause some templates to render incorrectly. This tutorial explains an easy way to get around this problem.