Mambo News

New Look & New Sites for Mambo

In July, we began the process of moving the Mambo family of web sites to new servers. To coincide with this change we also launched new web sites and a complete, new, Web 2.0 style look for the sites.

The Mambo project has always suffered from not having one definitive Mambo domain name. Over its 8 year history, Mambo has been variously referred to as Mambo Siteserver, Mambo Open Source (often abbreviated to "MOS") and just plain "Mambo". In the early days, the mamboserver domain name was secured but the project did not secure domains that would have been more appropriate for our CMS. In time, this left us with a family of web sites running on different domains.

For the past three years we have been using mambo-foundation.org as the primary domain, with "The Source" being the focus of development information, "Mambo Love" being the marketing and promotion site, and help, documentation, and the forums running under sub-domains. As the years passed and the sites grew, the information across our sites became more and more difficult to navigate. Duplication of content was occurring and it became clear that the structure of the sites was not handling growth. The sites did not have a uniform design and this caused confusion to Mambo users. This has now changed!

What's Inside - Team Blog

The Mambo Team blog is gearing up to be the place for tips and comments from members of Team Mambo. Have you checked it out lately? New posts include discussions about security, such as how to identify fraudulent, spoofed emails and tools for keeping your local computer safe. An Administrator or Super Administrator with a compromised local computer can potentially put a Mambo site at risk.

Blog entries don't get published to the front page of Mambo News, simply because they are opinion pieces, not official news from Mambo, so if you wish to keep up with the latest entries either come back often or subscribe to our RSS feed.

Packt Publishing has announced the 2008 Open Source CMS Awards

Show your support for Mambo today by heading over to Packt Publishing and nominating Mambo as the Best Overall Open Source CMS and Best PHP Open Source CMS. Everyone involved with Mambo is an unpaid volunteer. I am sure you can think of someone who has worked hard here to make Mambo what it is and to help make our community a friendly and helpful one. Nominate this person as Mambo's MVP today.

ACT NOW! Nominations close on 25th August.
Get the message out on your blogs, sites, forums, emails, through RSS feeds, newsletters - anywhere you can - let's get as many nominations in for Mambo as possible!

Show your support for Mambo today!