How about Mambo?

[sgforumadmin]

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]

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]

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]

Hi,

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

Gustavo
Brasil

[thesigna]

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]

The route of the image is this http://martineztec.com/templates/rhu...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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Bajen]

Originally Posted by martinez

Hi,

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

Gustavo
Brasil

Just change
http://martineztec.com/templates/rhu...title_back.png

with your own picture THE SAME SIZE AND FILE NAME

or change the Theme (template)