Hello all,
I am very new to Mambo. I was drawn to it due to ever increasing frustrations with Scoop. My biggest frustration then was how quiet the community support appeared to be, and how difficult this made it to learn. I found it tough, and I can appreciate how hard it would be for someone with no experience of programming.
Scoop was hardcore though, and I still have no idea what half the code did. My initial impressions are that Mambo is different. It is more community focused, and more encouraging to non programmers. For example just compare the two installation / administration guides.
I feel it is very important that Mambo is made as easy to understand as possible, for everyone. Obviously I am not asking for the programmers to become tutors, however, everyone should repay the teaching they received, and help others.
I know very little about Mambo, where I can I try and help others. It can be hard though, to get help, and to provide the help needed. As pointed out the forums are not easy to search accurately. Perhaps a wiki for common questions and proven solutions?
In the course of the past week I have been trying to build a site. As I said earlier, I am no programmer so it looks quite shabby;
www.opensourcemusic.info .... I have asked quite a few questions on numerous scoop forums. Generally I have not received answers, but replies. It's been over a week and I still have no idea how to change the width of some modules so they fit my dynamic template. if someone could tell me, I could tell someone else, and so on...
I really hope mambo does not go the way of Scoop. Both are undoubtedly fine pieces of code, but code for coders; thats going nowhere.
kind regards
John