Product Description

This book is a fast paced tutorial to creating a website using Mambo. If you have never used Mambo, or even any web content management system before, then this book will walk you through each step in a friendly and accessible way. From installation, to initial set up and content entry and then on to customization for your own look and feel, this book will get you to a stable and working Mambo based web site fast. You do not have to be an experienced web developer or designer to get a great looking site with a full set of functions using this book and Mambo. This book will guide you through every step. 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #671919 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 227 pages

About the Author

Hagen Graf

Hagen Graf was born in July 1964. Born and raised in Lower Saxony, Germany, his first contact with a computer was in the late seventies with a Radioshack TRS 80. As a salesperson, he organized his customers' data by programming suitable applications. This gave him a big advantage over other salesmen. With the intention of honing his skills, he joined evening courses in programming and became a programmer. Nowadays he works in his wife's consulting company as a trainer, consultant, and programmer (cocoate.com). Hagen Graf has published other books in German, about the Apache web server, about security problems in Windows XP, about Mambo, and about Drupal. Since 2001, he has been engaged in a nonprofit e-learning community called "machm-it.org e.V.", as well as in several national and international projects. All the projects are related to content management, community building, and harnessing the power of social software like wikis and weblogs. He chose Joomla! CMS because of its simplicity and easy-to-use administration.

Customer Reviews

Step by step tutorial? Nothing of the sort ...
As the title really and as the previous reviewer said. Given its subtitle of "A step by step tutorial", I bought this book hoping for a real beginner's guide to Mambo and sadly it is no such thing.

All it is is just a slightly more detailed overview of the huge range of features built into or available via plugins for Mambo - information that is available for free from countless websites. It does not go into much in the way of detail as to how those features are used.

Extremely disappointing.

A serial look at menu options
I had hoped for something that would explain the structure of the product and a strategy for the creation and maintenance of web sites with Mambo / Joomla, instead I got a complete list of menu options and a brief expanation of what each did. And of course, yes, you could use it as a tutorial and build a website with it, but you would need to tie the menu items into a product yourself.

This is a reference book for someone who already understands the product, I'd say that if you want an introduction there must be better offerings.