Mambo Quick Start 4.5.2

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//-->Mambo 4.5.2Quick Start GuideAuthor: Russell Walker (www.netshinesoftware.com)Version: 1.0Last Updated: 27/02/2005Copyright Notice:© Copyright 2005 Netshine Software Limited. All rights reserved.You may print this document only for your own use. You may not distribute this document in any form – printed orelectronic – without the express permission of the publisher. You may not link directly to this document without theexpress permission of the publisher. You may however, provide a link to any page in the publisher’s website(www.netshinesoftware.com) to allow the document to be downloaded from there. This document is provided freeof charge, and without any warranty of any kind. Netshine Software Limited accepts no liability for any loss ordamages resulting from the use of this document or any of the information or opinions it contains.IntroductionThe following is a brief introduction to the Mambo Content Management System. Use this guide to quickly get togrips with the basic operation of Mambo, and as a reminder of how to achieve common tasks. Once you get thehang of the basics, it is recommended that you familiarise yourself with some of the more advanced featuresdetailed in the official documentation, so as to get the most out of your website. Text presented in bold is just tohighlight key words or points, and to help you scan quickly through the document.This guide assumes that you already have Mambo installed on your web server. For information about how toandBasic Principles – Important!Before you can understand how to operate Mambo, you need to understand the basic principles that underlie thesystem. If you skip this section, you will probably have difficulties later on.As a ‘Content Management System’, Mambo is about organising your websitecontent.This means you have tothink about your website in terms of the content structure, rather than the end result (the web pages). The actual‘look and feel’, or theme of your website is completely separate from the content – the colours, fonts, alignment,positioning, etc. are all governed by thetemplateyou apply rather than being built-in to your content. Thus, byassigning a different template to your website, you can give it a completely different look and feel without having toamend any of the content.Creating a template is a fairly technical exercise (but not too difficult) which requires some knowledge of XHTMLand PHP. If you don’t know anything about those two languages, you are probably better off using one of the manyfreely-available open source templates – or hiring a professional to design a template for you according to yourrequirements, or in line with your existing ‘corporate image’. For details onhow to install and apply a template,seeappendix Aat the end of this document (you might not need this if someone else has already set up the systemfor you).After you have chosen and installed a template, you can begin to work on the content. Your content can beorganised intosectionsandcategories:Sectionsare containers that hold one or moreCategories.Categoriesare containers that hold one or moreItems.Itemsare the articles that make up your actual website content.For example, if you were a financial advisor who wanted to publish articles that give advice about differentinvestment options, you might have asectioncalled ‘Investments’, containingcategoriessuch as ‘Life Insurance’,‘Savings’, and ‘Stocks and Shares’. Within the ‘Life Insurance’ category, you could store variousitemsrelating tothat category, such as ‘Endowments’, ‘Annuities’, etc.To add a new article to your website, you will have to assign the article (oritem)to acategory,and the category toasection.This means that you must think carefully about what sections and categories to createbeforeyou startadding content. It is possible to move things into different categories and sections after you have created them, butit is much easier and less time-consuming to think about and define your content structure first, andthenadd youritems.After you have defined a section, added a category to it, and added an item to the category (details on how youactually do this in Mambo come later), the item will not be visible in your website unless youpublishit. This ishandy, because it means you can store content in your website which nobody can see until you are happy that it isready for general release. You can also specify in Mambo that an article be published on a particular date in thefuture, and expire on another date – which allows you to control the release of time-sensitive information.Even when a section, category, and item are all ‘published’, you still need a way for your visitors tonavigateto thecontent they want. This requires you to build amenusystem, and link your content to it. Your menu system doesnothave toexactly reflect the structure of your sections and categories, although this is usually the easiest way todo it. The section/category/item structure is mainly there foryourbenefit as the administrator. The visitors to yourwebsite will see your content by means of your menus, so these are like a controlled ‘window’ into your content.To summarise then, as an administrator, you build and view your website’s content in a hierarchy ofsections,categories,anditems.When you are happy with your content structure, you createmenuitems, and link these toyour content. A menu item can point to a section, a category, or directly to an item. Where a menu option links to acontainer (ie. a section or category), the end user will be presented with a list of the items contained within thatsection or category when they select that menu option, as well as any introductory content you may define for thatsection or category.Logging in to MamboTo access your Mambo administration control panel, use your website address (or the full address of the folder inwhich you have installed Mambo) followed by ‘/administrator’. For example, if your website address iswww.mycompany.com,to access Mambo you would normally type:www.mycompany.com/administrator.Thisbrings you to the Mambo login page, which looks like this:Figure 1 – Mambo Administration Login Screen.Note:It is possible to apply a template to the administration program as well as to the website itself. If someoneelse has installed Mambo for you, they may have changed the way the screens look – so the screenshots shown inthis document might not look identical to your system. Even if this is the case though, the functions illustratedshould still be available to you, and the general principles of how the system works will be the same.Type in your user name and password, and either press the ‘enter’ key or click on ‘Login’ to enter the MamboAdministration home page. The home page gives you easy access to all of Mambo’s functions. You can return tothis page at any time by clicking on the ‘Home’ menu option in the top left corner (see Figure 2).Figure 2 – Mambo Administration Home Page.Creating a SectionThe first thing we are going to do iscreate a section– that is, a general, high-level subject which will later bedivided into categories. To create a new section, click on theSection Managericon on the home page, or selectthe option from the ‘Content’ menu, as illustrated in figure 3.Figure 3 – Accessing the Section ManagerThis will take you into the ‘Section Manager’ screen, which allows you to add or edit sections. In the exampleshown in figure 4, there is already a section called ‘The News’, and one called ‘Newsflashes’. If you wanted to editeither of those sections, you would just click on the orange link (or alternatively, check the box next to the link, andthen select ‘Edit’ from the toolbar). To create a new section, just click on the ‘New’ toolbar button.Figure 4 – The Section ManagerThis will take you into thesection editor.Whenever you enter an editor like this in version 4.5.2, the main menudisappears (including the option to return to the home page, which might be disconcerting for some!). Don’t panicthough – there is a good reason for this. Whenever you enter an editor, the item you are editing is‘checked out’toyou. This means that if there are other users who are also allowed to access the administration tool, they will not beable to edit an item while you have it checked out. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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