The first ever official Mambo community survey is underway. The results of the survey of Mambo users will guide the development of the popular Mambo open source content management system.

At this time of year everything traditionally goes quiet on the Mambo forums and on sites like this. This is the season when Mambo developers take time out to be with family and friends. Every dedicated open source contributor sacrifices a lot of time during the year, time when they could be relaxing with friends [...]

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.

Calling all Mambo users and supporters - the Packt Publishing 2008 Open Source CMS Awards are open and Mambo needs your nomination today. Show your support for Mambo by adding your nomination. Show your appreciation for a special Mambo team member too, by nominating your MVP of choice for an award. Please spread the message and help get as many nominations as possible for Mambo!

This has been a very busy two weeks, and a very frustrating time as I have battled with slow internet connections at a time when I have been relaunching the official Mambo family of web sites with their new look.

This tutorial shows you how to create a custom 404 error page within your Mambo or Joomla 1.0 web site and set it up as the default 404 page for your web site. Using the methods described here you can not only create a useful 404 page for your site visitors but it will also send the correct headers.

Running old versions of Mambo, or any software, can leave your site exposed to security risks. You should always be using the latest stable release of the Mambo CMS. This tutorial discusses how to upgrade Mambo and provides links to resources that can make upgrading easier.

Creating a web site that passes W3C validation is not important to everyone. However, if it is important to you and you embed Google or YouTube videos on your site, then be sure to read this tutorial. Here, we show you how to embed videos using validating code.

This tutorial looks at RSS, what it is and how it can be used for marketing your Mambo site. It explores the various options Mambo offers and makes recommendations for extending the Mambo feed functionality.

This tutorial shows you where and how to edit your Mambo template to focus on the areas of your site that are most relevant. These simple steps enable Google AdSense to crawl content-rich areas of your site and to ignore areas that you don't want included. By doing this, you improve your Ad targeting and will get Ads delivered to you that are more relevant.