How about Mambo? [Archive] - Web Hosting Forum - Web hosting discussion at SiteGround.com

sgforumadmin

06-27-2005, 07:00 AM

Mambo is one of the most preferred CMS at SiteGround. Its main advantage is the combination of powerful design and simplicity to use. We would like to hear what you think about using Mambo on SiteGround servers. You can share your experience with this CMS here.

voraner

06-27-2005, 11:15 AM

I've been using Mambo at SiteGround for about a month. I'm really impressed by the quality of SiteGround as a host. Mambo has it's quirks (like any freeware and most commercial CMSes), but overall I'm very satisfied with its quality and expandability. There is still certain lack of developer's documentation, but the code is well written and easy to understand. The Mambo community is large and growing.

I would be happy to exchange thoughts re: Mambo with other SiteGround Mambo users. My site is voraner.com (it's in Russian, a clan site for a web-based strategy game).

Best wishes to all,

Sergei

creativ

06-27-2005, 12:16 PM

I have been using mambo here at siteground for a while now. One of the main reasons I chose siteground was because of the fantastico installation abilities.

I have been pleased with Mambo so far and very pleased with siteground. Sometimes documentation is hard to find for mambo stuff, but their are parties out there willing to help, you just have to track them down.

martinez

06-27-2005, 12:29 PM

Hi,

I need change the Mambo logo in my site (www.martineztec.com), how I do?

Gustavo
Brasil

thesigna

06-27-2005, 01:01 PM

just the logo "SunFlare" or the entire art for the site? Mambohut.com has quite a few templates you can change to. To change the "SunFlare" logo you will need to download the file and edit it in photoshop, etc..and then upload it again

major117

06-27-2005, 02:41 PM

The route of the image is this http://martineztec.com/templates/rhuk_solarflare/images/title_back.png a easy form is to create your own image and to keep it with the same name.

A greeting from Spain. :)

ukapolog

06-28-2005, 02:43 AM

I have been with Site Ground since March. This is by far the best web host I have ever used! But how can I learn more about what mambo can do? I have a Christian teaching site so I am not looking for anything concerned with selling products etc., but I feel I would like to see a simplified description of the capabilities of not only mambo but some of the other things Site Ground make available.

miguel

06-28-2005, 02:52 AM

I would like to see a simplified description of the capabilities of not only mambo but some of the other things Site Ground make available.

You can check out this page: http://siteground.com/faq/faq_wesupport.htm

It includes brief simplified descriptions of many technologies and features that siteground supports.

robbins

07-01-2005, 12:25 AM

I've been with Siteground for over a year now and am very pleased with the speed and accuracy of their customer service abilities. I have 6 or 7 Mambo sites running anywhere from version 4.5 to 4.5.2. Some I installed myself but most through Fantastico. On some of my more experimental sites I have even "upgraded" Mambo via Fantastico without any seeable problems.

My question is: If I upgrade Mambo 4.5 to 4.5.2, am I looking to crash some of my modules, components, and template? From what I rread on the Mambo forums, I've not felt confident enough to try on my heavily used sites. Anyone know for sure?

Thanks

ralkana

07-01-2005, 06:01 PM

I found SiteGround through an ad on MamboForge. Thank goodness I did. And installing using Fantastico is a LOT better than doing it from scratch (and trust me, I've done about a dozen that way - and never two work the same way).

I've got a couple of Mambo sites but SG is the best of the lot. My others will be moving over when their agreements run out.

robbins - I had no problems upgrading to 4.5.2 but the secret is always to expect the worst ;) Backup your database and other stuff and I believe you can restore the lot in an emergency. I'm sure there will be info about it on Mambers or the MamboForge forums (at least I hope there is as I'll be using the same technique when I bring my other sites to SG).

Edit: There's a bit of a discussion about backing up here (http://www.siteground.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29).

SGR_Peter

07-06-2005, 09:46 AM

robbins, there is whole a lot of things that could happen in case you upgraded. In order to make sure that your modules will not crash, we do recommend that you visit the source web site, and make sure they are not designed to work with 4.5 or 4.5.1 only (the majority are, and this is specifically described on their homepages).

As I am used to say, we do not provide ready answers to customer requests. You can decide whether to upgrade or not, based on the effects you discover while looking for information.

ruinedli

07-07-2005, 03:43 PM

I have to say that I've been looking for the last month for a way to create a site using one of the many CMS's available but have been completely confused by installation instructions etc.

Until I read this thread I never knew that Site Ground made it so easy! Have since signed up a new hosting account, installed Mambo using Fantastico and can't believe it was so so trouble free!

I am finding that the components / templates etc aren't too easy to track down but I'm sure that will just come with experience.

Thanks to everyone for your contributions :)

Andrea.

robbins

07-11-2005, 11:33 PM

Backing up! Arrrgh! What an awful thought! Unfortunately, a necessary evil! Yes, I backed up the sites I upgraded and, fortunately, they all went smoothly.

I know I'd lose some major sleep if I had to re-do everything from my back-ups! It's one of those things I guess I could do if I had to, but up to this point, it's never been needed!

For now, one of my major sites is still running 4.5 and is absolutely loaded with custom-tweaked components and modules .... all of which are certainly not 4.5.2 ready! I think I'll wait on upgrading these type of sites until the latest features of Mambo greatly out-weigh the time to reconstruct from scratch!

Thanks for ya'lls input!

htssetnx

07-27-2005, 05:29 AM

Besides from a problem I am dealing with at the moment (and have made a post about) I find it very userfriendly like the rest of your features.

What I like about Mambo is the user friendly interface that allows you to change everything without having to set hours and do coding.

I tried PHPWCMS too, but Mambo is much better in my oppinion.

masoesa

08-26-2005, 01:02 PM

I have been using mambo now for a month and just transferrred to sg. I transferred because my site kept collapsing at the other provider while my disc quota and traffic were not even halfly used. I also found sg via an mambo ad and I am also happy I did. This is the first day that my site didn't collapse. I am a big fan of mambo. Sonce I don't know much about css and installing and such I hope I can get some help because there is a lot more to explore.

Mamboman

09-16-2005, 12:40 PM

I've been developing my mambo site offline using the standalone server, and am impressed how quickly and easily mambo works once you find your way around a little.

I still have some teething troubles, I noticed that a lot of junk hangs around in the database when you delete products, entries and even complete components. It has been hell trying to clean up the files, but otherwise I am happy. I just moved to SG and will be setting up my site in the coming week, once phpshop runs (it doesn't at the moment and I have posted an thread for this) I'll be importing my products and going live.

I'd be glad to hear of anyone who has experience with phpShop who may be able to assist with the odd question or two...

Mamboman :)

PS - The support team is great, even the largest providers in Germany offer crap support and it takes ages. You guys have really helped me thus far, keep up the excellent work!

phoenixw

12-07-2005, 11:42 PM

I have to be honest here; I went to great lengths to question support before signing up to make sure that I would have the options I needed for the web design i was trying to achieve. I ask if I could use flash-I was told yes, I ask if I could import other templates-I was told yes, I told the support person that I had my own logo and design for the front page and ask if I would be able to incorporate them into my web design-I was told yes. I then paid an extra $40 to upgrade to Design Pro to be able to have more options for manipulating my template only to find out now that I can't ever import the template I want to use. I am being told that I have to use Site Ground templates. This has been very confusing and I feel that I have wasted money and time. there seems to be a lack of commuication here. The templates offered are not sufficient for the web design that I am trying to achieve.

sgforumadmin

12-08-2005, 11:03 AM

Hello,

SiteGround supports various different applications and site-building tools. Each of them has different advantages and disadvantages, but the main thing they have in common is that none is tolerant to templates developed for or with the help of another site-building tool. All these sitebuilding tools and their templates may accept and upload various files, including logos. However, you cannot use one sitebuilding tool to manipulate a page developed with another. So, in case you decided to use the SiteGround SiteBuilder, you have to use its own templates. If you don't like these templates you may choose another site-building tool. The difficulty is that every time you change the tool, you start designing all over again.

danyo1332

02-20-2006, 09:56 AM

I love it. I've been using it for quite some time now.

Bajen

11-28-2006, 06:31 AM

Hi,

I need change the Mambo logo in my site (www.martineztec.com), how I do?

Gustavo
Brasil

Just change
http://martineztec.com/templates/rhuk_solarflare/images/title_back.png

with your own picture THE SAME SIZE AND FILE NAME

or change the Theme (template)

Silo24X

12-22-2006, 04:34 AM

Mambo is really good. I suggest people check it out. I've heard alot of good things about it on their forum.

trichnosis

12-26-2006, 05:45 PM

mambo and joomla are very usefull cms . i'm using joomla for sites in my signature

Derm

01-15-2007, 08:45 AM

Hello,
I am using SG template 36 with Mambo. I am having some peculiar problems.

1. The Top menu & Main Menu both have the same entries, Home, Gallery & Contact. The problem is with "Gallery" in the Top menu. Even though both gallery entries have the same link, the top menu goes to a non existent page every time. See below :

www.photoazure.com

Main Menu "Gallery":http://www.photoazure.com/gallery2/main.php

This is correct

Top Menu "Gallery":http://www.photoazure.com/gallery2/main.php&Itemid=39

This is wrong and is not the link that is inserted in the appropriate box.

2. Because the Top Menu is not working correctly, I unpublished it, but its still there.

Anybody got a clue?

Silvia

01-15-2007, 10:09 AM

Hello,

Unfortunaley we do not have access to your page to examin it more profoundly and understand what is causing this error. However if you would like you can disable to top menu in the following way:

Open the /templates/siteground36/index.php file and find this

<div id="topnavigation">

In it you will find a php code that you will have to delete.

I hope this would help :)

Derm

01-15-2007, 10:33 AM

Hello Silvia,
Thanks for the reply. I would be happy to give you access if you provide me with a PM address.
Another issue that I am having is that having converted the large Front Page image into a link to my Gallery, the text that was beneath the image has now moved up along side it.
Thanks
Derm

Derm

01-17-2007, 12:23 PM

I want to say a big thanks to Silvia and the Siteground team for sorting out my link problem quickly & efficiently. They were on the case straight away.
I'm still having a little trouble trying to keepsome text beneath an image. If anyone has any pointers, I would be glad to hear from them.
Derm

Nabeel

05-25-2007, 07:18 AM

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Niko

05-28-2007, 08:15 AM

Hello Nabeel,

Mambo and Joomla have a lot in common and they both are excellent choices. Before you make any decision, please refer to the following URL for more information, which in my opinion, will be very helpful to you:

http://www.siteground.com/joomla_mambo.htm

mastermind

05-29-2007, 08:12 PM

if you see the support webs sites of mambo, there are deserts... but Joomla is the CMS most used now. Is easy, usable, adminable jeje.

I personally think then mambo´s days is countdown.

HarcourtMarketing

07-13-2007, 12:36 AM

I just read this in the Joomla tutorial. Does setting the SEO when a person first starts building a website prevent url problems such as this? If so, is there a listing of must do's and should do's OR this may occur, prior to installing any modules? Thanx.
http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/joomla/joomla_sef_url.htm

Niko

07-13-2007, 08:24 AM

Hello HarcourtMarketing,

Any additional Joomla module might cause problems, especially if it not developed by the developers of Joomla. Therefore, I will suggest you to always conduct a simple serach for any known issues about the module, which you intend to add into your Joomla. Also, it is a good practice to keep only those modules, which you need and intend to use.

Dan

07-16-2007, 05:33 AM

It depends on the addons which you may need to have on your website. It seems that both application are quite good but it always depends on you to choose which one you will use.

TroyM

08-03-2007, 10:03 PM

I switch to Joomla almost 1.5 years ago.. I though that team is better.. BUt I read some news on SMF's web site..

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SMF Bridge for Joomla! Discontinued
As some of you might know, there have recently been some changes on part of the Joomla! project in how they interpret the license their software is under. Namely, while the project remains under the exact same license (the GPL), they are now interpreting this license in its strictest sense. In addition, the project has announced that this change in interpretation is retroactive and applies to all previous versions of their software.
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=184558.0

I am not sure what is going on with Joomla...

Thanks
Troy

Dan

08-06-2007, 08:02 AM

The migration from Mambo to Joomla is still possible as long as the application are not very different yet. Note this migration may not be available with the next versions of both applications. You may check the following URL for more infomration:

http://help.joomla.org/content/view/818/181/

dpk

08-07-2007, 01:31 AM

I started with Mambo, and have stuck with it, while also using Joomla on some other sites. What is good about Joomla is the explosion of 3pd extensions that came out for it after the fork. However, that is all in jeopardy.

Joomla is just not getting to 1.5, they're tearing up their core and 3pd development community, and the truth is that Joomla 1.0.x is nothing more than Mambo 4.5.x. I run tons of Joomla extensions on my Mambo 4.5.5 site.

Mambo 4.6.x is a pretty fine advance, and the team is really moving it forward. 4.7 is supposed to be out soon, and one really hot aspect of it is complete design and content separation. No tables and other design elements embedded in the core code. Code compliance and good design principle will finally be possible.

A lot of people don't care about that -- they just want to slop together an ugly portal jammed up with add-ons in a template they didn't make or customize very well. But serious users and developers will, in the long run, value the quality of the core system.

222fbj

08-30-2007, 03:29 AM

webmidas

10-06-2007, 05:36 AM

I am new to CMS/Mambo/Joomla... in fact I have not yet signed up with Siteground but it looks like a great solution. I have been browsing the Mambo tutorial pages... and assume Joomla is a similar CMS. Is there any guidance for CMS newbies to decide which is best for their needs? Maybe a comparison of features... or just a summary of why one is better suited to certain applications (eg a low volume personal site, or a larger commercial site)?

thanks

Use joomla. Joomla is great coz it has many features.You can find virtually every type of plugins and modules for this.some of the very good looking themes are made for joomla. It's simply cool

Silvia

10-10-2007, 09:13 AM

I am new to CMS/Mambo/Joomla... in fact I have not yet signed up with Siteground but it looks like a great solution. I have been browsing the Mambo tutorial pages... and assume Joomla is a similar CMS. Is there any guidance for CMS newbies to decide which is best for their needs? Maybe a comparison of features... or just a summary of why one is better suited to certain applications (eg a low volume personal site, or a larger commercial site)?

thanks

You may have a look here:

http://www.cmsmatrix.org/

kannasser

12-02-2007, 11:49 AM

Hi, i am looking for mambot v4.5.2 but i cani' find it. if anyone can tell me wher can i download it from. Besides, is mambot 4.5.2 the only one that i can use to create online shop. Thanks.

onthesce

07-21-2008, 06:17 AM

Hi all
I've just installed Mambo through fantastico and am a little disappointed with the lack of add ons for the CMS as I want to create a classified ads area and an events calendar. I have checked out the web calendar already on Siteground but its really too basic as I want promoters to be able to include flyers etc. Can anyone tell me where I may be able to find a mambot or module which will help me achieve this.
Many thanks
Paul

samflutch123

09-01-2008, 07:11 AM

This is a suggestion for SMF's admins... There seem to be always more threads about mambo... Since this seems to be the major (if not only) solution for portal integration with SMF, how about a sub-board in the portal development board dedicated to all mambo-related threads? Just my opinion (and somebody else's too...).
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digitaldesperad

09-23-2008, 03:39 PM

According to SiteGround, Mambo is the most preferred CMS among its customers. The company has long experience in providing web space for Mambo users. Mambo community represents a large percentage of their clients and the reason is obvious – SiteGround technical team are professionals in Mambo CMS.

webdesign

09-29-2008, 07:46 AM

hi,
I need change the Mambo logo in my site (www.mag-corp.com)

webdesign

09-29-2008, 07:50 AM

I like it,Mambo and Joomla! is more than a simple form generator. It can be used to build complete applications in the Mambo and Joomla! CMS

martin v

09-29-2008, 08:41 AM

rahul7777

10-13-2008, 03:29 PM

Hello,

I like the mambo and jomila because it's very simple for beginners also and it's not only because both provides a good income but it's totally depends on you which one you prefer.

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