<P>If you've read anything at all about portals, you'll probably know at least three things: Portals are the most exciting way to do business, Portals can be really, I mean <I>really</I>, complicated and lastly Portals are absolutely, outrageously, often <I>unaffordably</I> expensive. </P><IMG hspace=6 src="images/stories/mambositeserver.gif" align=right> 
<P>Mambo Open Source is set to change all that ... Mambo Site server is different from the normal models for portal software. For a start, it's not complicated. Mambo has been developed for the masses. It's licensed under GPL, easy to install and administer and reliable. Mambo doesn't even require the user or administrator of the system to know HTML to operate it once it's up and running. 
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<H4><FONT color=ff6600>Mambo features:</FONT></H4>
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<LI>Completely database driven site engine using PHP/MySQL&nbsp; 
<LI>Security module for multi-level user/administrator logins 
<LI>News, products or services sections fully editable and manageable 
<LI>Topics sections can be added to by contributing authors 
<LI>Fully customisable layouts including left, center and right menu boxes 
<LI>Browser upload of images to your own library for use anywhere in the site 
<LI>Dynamic Forum/Poll/Voting booth for on-the-spot results 
<LI>Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX server, Solaris, AIX, SCO, WinNT, Win2K&nbsp; 
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<H4><FONT color=ff6600>Extensive Administration:</FONT></H4>
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<LI>Change order of objects including news, FAQ's, articles etc. 
<LI>Random Newsflash generator 
<LI>Remote author submission module for News, Articles, FAQ's and Links 
<LI>Object hierarchy - as many sections, departments, divisions and pages as you want 
<LI>Image library - now store all you GIF's and JPEG's online for easy use 
<LI>Automatic Path-Finder. Place a picture and let Mambo fix the link 
<LI>News feed manager. Choose from over 360 news feeds from around the world 
<LI>Archive manager. Put your old articles into cold storage rather than throw them out 
<LI>Email-a-friend and Print-format&nbsp;for every story and article 
<LI>In-line Text editor similar to Word Pad 
<LI>User editable look and feel 
<LI>Polls/Surveys - Now put a different one on each page 
<LI>Layout preview. See how it looks before going live 
<LI>Banner manager. Make money out of your site</LI></UL>