The following text will give you a brief overview, how the content pages in section categories (called items) will be handled in MOS 4.5. It is almost the same as news entries were made in the old version, but with some nice improvements:

One of the most exiting new features in MOS 4.5 is the Content Section. The new Content Section replaces the existing news, articles and FAQ items and adds a lot extra power. Here is a detailed overview how this section will work:

Like older MOS versions the new 4.5 uses buttons to make content page based decessions. The new version comes with a completely new button set which also comes without subtitles. To make things a little easier for you, this is the complete list:

In the 'Site' menu you can choose the menu point 'Configuration' to access the global overall settings for your new Mambo Open Source website. Change them on one of the following four screens:

The latest version of Mambo Open Source comes with a handy little installer script. This will make it easy for every upcoming webmaster to use MOS for his site. In my first preview of MOS 4.5 I will guide you through the installation process.

After you sucessfully installed MOS 4.5 on your webserver you can go on to the new admin interface. This article with give you a brief overview on the new menus:

While I worked on my new template called AkoBluePortal I made some kind of development diary. I made a screenshot on every stage the template was in and wrote a small text about my steps. This is the result of it all. Maybe it is helpfull for some of you, who are planing to do their own templates.

Normaly Mambo displays Announcement's on every page of your website. That's fine for some people, but most of the webmasters want their announcement only shown on the startpage or specific page. Mambo currently (4.0.13) lets you no choice on which page to display the announcement so you have to use a template trick to show it only on the startpage.

A very common question which i'm asked is how to hide the right blocks on content pages. Naturally Mambo don't hide the complete right block. Only within a few components like the poll the admin can change if this modules block should be displayed on certain pages.