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- » Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu
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- » The day the cross came down
- » This Week on Twitter: 8 May
- » Times, they are a’ changing…
- » Top of clocktower back in place
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Mambo Tutorials
This is a collection of Mambo tutorials I have written over the years. Some also relate to Joomla 1.0.x versions. The tutorials are aimed at the intermediate to advanced users of the Mambo and Joomla content management systems. I hope you find them useful! Subscribe to Mambo Tutorials to receive notification of new content.
- » 3 Easy Tips for Removing Tables from Mambo
- » Ad Targeting with AdSense
- » Adding AdSense to Mambo With a Module
- » Adding PowerPoint to Mambo
- » Adding Twitter Status to Mambo
- » Anatomy of the Mambo URL
- » Applying Header Tags to your Mambo Page Titles
- » Before you start developing your site - PLAN!
- » Blank Template for Mambo
- » Blocking Direct Access to Scripts in your Wrapper
- » Canonical URL for Mambo
- » Changing the Mambo Default Template to Use Your Own Images
- » Checking That Mambo Extensions are Safe to Use
- » Create a Custom 404 Error Page for Mambo
- » Create a Custom 404 Error Page with cPanel
- » Create a Custom 404 Error Page with IIS
- » Create a MySQL Database For Mambo
- » Create Your Own Mambo Template
- » Creating the templateDetails.xml File
- » Creating Your Own Favicon For Your Mambo site
- » Database function failed with error 1054
- » Display Modules Only When There is Content to Display
- » Don't Use Page Titles in Your Mambo Content
- » How to Avoid Duplicate Content Issues With Mambo
- » How to Change the Footer Text on Your Mambo Web Site
- » How to Determine Absolute Path
- » How to Recover Forgotten Administrator Password
- » How to Resolve Session Save Path Errors
- » How to Set your Home Page in Mambo Open Source
- » How to Update Mambo 4.5.0 Templates
- » How to Use FTP to Upload Mambo Files
- » How to Use the Frontpage Component in Mambo Open Source
- » Improving Mambo Performance
- » Incorrect Itemid's in Mambo and What to Do About Them
- » Installing Mambo
- » Intro Text and Main Text
- » Making Your Mambo IE6 Template Work With IE7
- » Mambo CSS Guide
- » Mambo Modules Display on Frontpage
- » Mambo PHP Cheat Sheet
- » Mambo RSS Feeds - Planning Delivery
- » Mambo SEF URL's - Should You Use Them?
- » Mambo System Requirements
- » Managing Your Mambo Database Using phpMyAdmin
- » Modules Shown Only to Logged In Users
- » Most Important Security Tip - Use a Good Web Host
- » Moving your Mambo or Joomla Web Site
- » Preparing to Install Mambo
- » Preventing Direct Access to Internal Scripts Displayed Through the Wrapper
- » Redirecting When Mambo is In a Subdirectory
- » Remove Your Installation Directory
- » Removing Duplicated Pathway from Mambo Frontpage
- » Search Engine Optimisation Within Mambo
- » Search Engine Spider View of Your Mambo Site
- » Troubleshooting the Double Slash
- » Turn Off Directory Listing
- » Upgrading Mambo
- » Upgrading Old Versions of Mambo
- » Using Module Positions for More Than One Module
- » Using Multiple Categories in Mambo
- » What "This Category is Currently Empty" Means
- » What Does "This Site is Temporarily Unavailable" Mean?
- » What is a Document Outline?
- » What You Need to Know When Working With Mambo Copyright Notices
- » When Should I Start Working on SEO For My Site?
- » Workaround for base href issues in Mambo
- » Working With META tags in Mambo
- » Working with mosimage in Mambo
Open Source
- » 4.5 Stable-1.0.2 Released
- » Anniversary of tragedy
- » Calling All Users of Mambo - Nominate Mambo Today
- » Community-driven Innovation
- » Comparison of phpWebSite and Mambo Open Source
- » Elpie Named Mambo MVP
- » Engaging with the Open Source Community
- » Errors with Integrating ttCMS with YaBB SE
- » Experiment with mosConfig_live_site
- » ExtCalendar Patch
- » Finalist in the New Zealand Open Source Awards
- » Fracturing of an Open Source Community
- » Help Needed
- » How to Create a Custom Block in PHP-NUKE
- » Hurricane Katrina - my year (Part 1)
- » Hurricane Katrina - my year (Part 2)
- » Hurricane Katrina - my year (Part 3)
- » Hurricane Katrina - my year (Part 4)
- » Hurricane Katrina and open source software
- » Improve Metadata in Mambo Open Source
- » Is 2004 the Year of Open Source?
- » It wasn’t just Katrina
- » Joined the Mambo Core Development Team
- » Joomla & Mambo 3rd Party Extension Vulnerabilities
- » Mambo 4.5.1 Released
- » Mambo 4.5.2.1 Patch Available
- » Mambo 4.6 Released
- » Mambo 4.6.1 & 4.5.4SP3 Released
- » Mambo 4.6.2 Released
- » Mambo 4.6.3 Released
- » Mambo 4.6.4 is released
- » Mambo 4.6.5 Released
- » Mambo fork is official
- » Mambo goes PHP5
- » Mambo Moves Towards Independence
- » Mambo Open Source
- » Mambo Open Source 4.5
- » Mambo Open Source 4.5 (1.0.8) patch released
- » Mambo Open Source renamed just Mambo
- » Mambo wins Award
- » Notes on Setting Up phpWebSite 0.8.2
- » One Patch Upgrade from Mambo 4.6.2 to 4.6.5 Released
- » Open Source Developers Conference
- » Open Source Development
- » Open Source Matters - or does it?
- » Open Source Research
- » PHP Manuals Updated
- » Release of Jobline Component for Mambo
- » Release of Mambo 4.5.4
- » Review of Mambo Open Source 4.5
- » Should you use a CMS?
- » Snowflake Module
- » Software Freedom Day 2008
- » Software used to build this site
- » The Great Mambo Graphics Competition
- » Why Use Open Source Software
- » WordPress 1.0 has been released
Search Engine Optimisation
- » Are Searchbots Killing Your Bandwidth?
- » Cache Your Favicon to Speed Up Your Site
- » Choosing the Right Domain Name
- » Common Causes of Duplicate Content
- » Domain Age Appears to Affect Search Engine Rankings
- » Search Engine Stop Words
- » SEO Basics - What is SEO?
- » Telling Search Engines Where to Go
- » Top 5 Firefox Add-Ons for SEO
- » Use CSS Shorthand to Reduce File Size
- » Using Canonical URL's
- » Why HTML Heading Tags Are So Important
Site Management
- » 10 Point Checklist when Finding a Host
- » Apache and Trailing Slashes
- » Finding Out Your Version of PHP
- » Guide to .htaccess
- » How to Check if mod_rewrite is Enabled on your Server
- » How to Make a Strong Password
- » How to Turn Off MySQL Strict Mode
- » How to Use FTP
- » IE8 RSS Bug Eats Bandwidth
- » Joy of the Internet
- » Raining on Internet Explorer Blues
- » Redirecting Traffic to Temporary Single Page
- » Web Site Security Involves More Than Secure Scripts
- » What are Domain Names?
- » What are IP addresses?
- » What is a Subdomain?
- » What is the .htaccess file?
- » What's the difference between an URL and a Domain Name?
Tech Talk
- » Ada and Annabella
- » Are Browser Add-ons Safe?
- » Connecting Communities
- » Differences between Drug Dealers and Software Developers
- » eDay in New Zealand
- » Fun Facts and History Tweeters
- » How to Tell if an Email message is Fraudulent
- » Internet Explorer 8 Release Bad News
- » Io no spic Inglish
- » Life in 2008
- » Mikeyy Twitter XSS Mutates & Continues to Attack
- » Ode to a Spell Checker
- » Recycle and Reuse
- » Recycling Council Computers
- » Second Twitter XSS Attack in 24 Hours
- » StalkDaily Twitter XSS - Lessons Learned
- » Sun Java Desktop System
- » Surplus Council Computers
- » Twitter All Clear - or is it?
- » Twitter Attacks Renewed
- » Twitter Follow Friday
- » Twitter Users Hand Over Keys to Their Back Doors
Web Design
- » Bye Bye IE6
- » CSS Troubleshooting
- » Dangers of icons
- » Embedding Videos Using Validating Code
- » IE 8 Compatibility - Should You Be Worried?
- » If Architects Had To Work Like Web Designers
- » Internet Explorer 8 Bugs
- » Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility
- » New Community Website
- » There is Life
- » Top 10 Colour Tools for Web Designers
- » Top 5 Firefox Add-Ons for Web Designers
- » Top 5 Font Tools for Web Designers
- » Top 5 Free CSS Editors
- » Top Accessibility Testing Tools for Web Designers
- » Visualisation of Web Design with Google's Browser Size
- » Web Site Accessibility
- » XHTML Entities Quick Sheet
WordPress
- » A Month Past Due Date and Still Waiting
- » Are WordPress Theme Frameworks Needed
- » Empower your WordPress Blog with Functions
- » Excluding your Plugin from WordPress Update Checks
- » Fixing Fatal Error in WordPress 2.7.1 Auto Upgrade
- » Important Security Patch for WordPress
- » Removing the WordPress Generator Tag
- » Stop WordPress Mangling Your Code
- » Time to Ditch the Dates
- » What Data Does WordPress Send Back to the Mothership
- » What To Do When WordPress Auto Upgrade Hangs
- » WordPress 2.5 New Template Conditionals
- » WordPress 2.6 Out
- » WordPress 2.6.5 Security Update
- » WordPress 2.7.1 Released
- » WordPress Excerpt Revisited
- » WordPress Function to Replace Read More
- » WordPress Phone Home & Privacy
- » Working with WordPress Functions in Themes
