Mambo Tutorial

How to update your site using Mambo

Logging In
Editing Mambo Pages
Inserting Images into Mambo pages

Introduction
As a ‘Content Management System’, Mambo is about organising your website content.

Sections are containers that hold one or more Categories.
Categories are containers that hold one or more Items.
Items are the articles that make up your actual website content.

Logging in

Editing Pages

To do this you first have to select which page you want to edit from the item list.
Step 1. Go to Content > Content by section > choose the section > choose the page.

Step 2. You should now be in the ‘Content Items Manager’ screen

Click on the page name link

Step 3. You can use the toolbar area at the top of the description box to modify the format of your description – to add bold, italics, bullet points, etc.

The ‘Styles’ dropdown box lists all of the pre-defined style settings that have been set up for the template you are using. The effect this has on the selected text could be anything from changing its colour, to changing its size, to adding a background image, and many other settings. There might not be any styles
available to you, but if there are, you can highlight some text and select a style to apply to that text.

Don’t forget to save your work by clicking the save or apply button at the top right of your page.

Inserting Images
If you want to insert an image into you page you first need to upload it into the media centre.
Step 1. Go back to you Administration Homepage by clicking ‘Home’ which is in the top left hand corner of your screen. The Administration Homepage looks like this:

Step 2. Click on the media manager which looks like this:

Once you have clicked this button you should be at a page called “Media Manager”.
Each page should have it’s own folder.
Step 3. Click on the folder of which page you want to insert the image to.
Step 4. One you are in the folder, click on the browse button near where is says ‘upload’.

Step 5. Navigate to where you page is saved and click ‘open’.
Step 6. Click on the Upload button at the top right hand corner of the page.

Step 7. Now go to the page which you want to insert the image into.
To do this you first have to select which page you want to edit from the item list.
Step 8. Go back to you Administration Homepage by clicking ‘Home’ which is in the top left hand corner of your screen.
Step 9. Go to Content > Content by section > choose the section > choose the page.

Step 10. You should now be in the ‘Section Manager’ screen (figure 4), which allows you to add or edit sections (pages). To edit your page click on one of the page names that should be an orange link (or alternatively, check the box next to the link, and then select ‘Edit’ from the toolbar).
Step 11. Put the curser at the location where you want the image to be, then click the ‘I’ or image button at the bottom left hand corner of your editor panel:

This will just insert the text {mosimage} into your content – {mosimage} is a
placeholder which instructs Mambo to insert the next image in the list of content images at that location. The image won’t be visible in your content until you preview the website.
You can use {mosimage} as many times as you like: each time the {mosimage} placeholder is encountered, Mambo will just take the next image on the list – so make sure the images in the list are in the correct order. To control the order of the images on your page you need to  on the images tab (see figure 12 below). You should see a heading called ‘Gallery Images’. These are all the images you have available to you. You should see the image that you just uploaded. Click on the image name and then click ‘Add’. This will add your image to the box called ‘content images’. The order that the images are within the box called ‘content images’- is the same order that will appear on your page.

Don’t forget to save your work by clicking the save or apply button at the top right of your page.

Some of the information in the instruction was based on:
Mambo 4.5.2
Quick Start Guide
Author: Russell Walker (www.netshinesoftware.com)
Version: 1.0
Last Updated: 27/02/2005