Message from Dean - May 8th 2007
I am currently testing out a new version of the APF Bridge Component - If you notice any errors within this demo store please drop me a line.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9781904811732
ISBN: 1904811736
Label: Packt Publishing
Manufacturer: Packt Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 227
Publication Date: August 27, 2005
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Studio: Packt Publishing
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Product Description:
A fast paced introductory tutorial to this well established PHP/MySQL based content management system
- Get your Mambo website up fast
- Walk through the whole process
- Customise and extend your Mambo site
In Detail
Mambo is a mature and fully featured Content Management System (CMS). First released in 2001, the system is now on release 4.5.x and is supported by an active and well organized open source development team and community. Mambo is both easy to use at the entry level for creating basic websites, whilst having the power and flexibility to support complex web applications.
Mambo implements the core requirements of a full featured CMS. It has a powerful and extensible templating system with the ability to upload and manage many different data types. User access control, content approval, rich administrative control, content display scheduling are all built-in. New features and extensions are constantly added to the core system, with many more being available and supported by the community.
The book begins by introducing Mambo and concepts behind content management. Then the installation of Mambo, and its supporting software [Apache/MySQL/PHP] is covered clearly and simply. Once you have the installation up and running, we then take a tour of Mambo as it appears out of the box, to familiarize ourselves with how it works and what is what. As you take the tour, your own ideas for what you need in your new website begin to crystallise around what you can see Mambo is capable of.
We then build our web application, using the features of Mambo that are essential to our purpose. We try not to spend time on things that don�??t matter at this point. Once we have a base version of our site up, we then learn how to change its appearance and feature set to suit our particular requirements, including bringing it into line with an established corporate identity. At the end of the book we show how, if you have the skills and the need, you can add your own extensions to Mambo.
Approach
This book focuses on taking you through the essential tasks to create a Mambo site as fast as possible. These essential tasks are explained clearly, with well structured step by step instructions. The book does not aim to cover every feature of Mambo, nor is it a comprehensive guide to extending Mambo. Almost everything in the book is accomplished without recourse to the underlying PHP code in which Mambo is written. The book is very readable and the author has a particularly chatty and engaging writing style.
Who this book is written for?
This book is suitable for web developers, designers, webmasters, content editors and marketing professionals who want develop a fully featured web presence in a simple and straightforward process. It does not require any detailed knowledge of programming or web development, and any IT confident individual will be able to use the book to produce an impressive web site.
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I bought this book to research how to implement a new site on Mambo CMS. It basically was a copy of basic explanations that are on the mambo site, and only addressed the structure that is in place with default values on the test page. Why bother spending the money when all of the info is online? And why call it a tutorial, when it doesn't show you how to do anything, but rather just explains what each thing is supposed to do?
Also, and this is my fault for not thinking about it when I was buying, but 227 pages of computer book is not worth $40. Even if it were really good, which it's not.
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Bad points :
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- No real structure
- Hardly any advice on why to use this or that function
- Most options not even explored (has the author ??)
- What is the use of including code with no explanation on how to use it and/or what it is for ?
- Expensive
Good points
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- Gives some kind of an overview, but the time reading the book, one could have figgered that out by himself
- Explains some of the shortcomings of Mambo/Joomla
Conclusion :
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This has been the worst book I have ever read, and I do not understand anyone that gives it a score higher than 3 stars.. Expect the 'great' reviews to be written by the author or friends of the author, I serious disagree with their view !
A book should encourage the reader not demotivate..
Next time the author writes the book, he better stays at one place and get focussed (and not travelling from place to place and connect ... Read More
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I have not used a CMS before, other than WordPress (that I consider to be a light-weight and focused CMS) so I decided to give Mambo a whirl but not without the help of this book. Unlike some other reviewers, the subtitle of my copy reads "A step by step tutorial" and so I read the book with that in mind.
There are a couple of minor problems with the book. It was originally written in German and translated to English. The translation is not perfect and a couple of sentences required rereading but this is a minor matter. The other problem is that one of the most useful tutorials is on how to install the German language module which, for a book that has been translated into English, doesn't make a lot of sense to keep. It would have been my wish to use this valuable space to provide other tutorials.
My review was focused on whether the book could help me download, install, set up, and use Mambo to build a Web site but unfortunately, it doesn't live up to my wishes. Some ... Read More
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If you have ever tried to build a web page for your own use or for a company, you know first hand that although it seems easy at first, it really isn't. A large number of technologies are involved, together with other extra-technological parameters like psychology, marketing, color theory, etc. The situation becomes a real nightmare when you have to build a website, an organized set of web pages, that interact between them and with the visitor. And what if you want to add extra features like document management, contact forms, sophisticated menu systems, to name a few? What if you want to make it have an elegant appearance that at the same time, must be easy to draw? What if you want to implement a mechanism that gives you the strength to modify content in an easy way? What if you want the changes to your navigation structure be reflected immediately on your menus?
You are asking too much! Or maybe not, since Mambo is here!
Mambo is one of the most sophisticated CMS in ... Read More
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A friend bought this and he raved about how it was the end all to Mambo knowledge. Of course I had to get...his copy and see for myself. I handed it back after 5 minutes never to want to hold it again. Like the guy below, if you need something to read while on the squatter, get it. Otherwise, download the mans into your PDA and read away.
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