Nucleus CMS www.nucleuscms.org is an open source content management blogging platform with many features and plug-ins available to grow your business online.
Nucleus CMS is available for free under the GNU General Public License. NucleusCMS was created by the Nucleus Group in 2002. It was later developed and expanded to be the extensive version that exists today, by the international community called the CMS Team. Nucleus CMS was developed to have multiple weblog content visible on one page. It is designed with the ability to have multiple authors and administrators logging in to post or change configurations as necessary.
You can set up several categories to have a commenting and a voting system provided to enable your readers to share their thoughts and opinions of your posts. All of your urls are optimized for both reader and search engines. You can set the system up to automatically display your posts for future dates. This comes in handy for times when you will be going on vacation or will find yourself unable to post on a regular basis.
There are many changes you can make to create your own unique look through skins, templates, and CSS files.
Many plugins are available to add to the features of your site such as NP_Newsletter, NP_blogstats, calendar, chat, weather forecasts, amazon search, and so many more. Plugins are designed by members of the community and are added daily to the growing database.
This system is simple enough for anyone to learn and expandable enough to allow you to build almost any website you imagine.
Is this software compatible with your server?
NucleusCMS can be used on any web server that has PHP and MySQL installed. In some hosting packages this software can be automatically installed with a few configuration settings within the Fantastico control panel. Otherwise a manual install will have to be done by uploading the files to your server via FTP.
You will need to know where to access your files, usually under the file manager option in your control panel, to FTP your extracted files into the correct folder. You can use this software as a standalone site, meaning you can choose to install in the root directory of your domain, and have the store as you main index; or you can choose to install in a sub directory as an add on, an example being http://yoursite.com/blog
You will need some HTML and CSS knowledge to edit skins and templates or to do some of the settings.
Getting you blog installed and online
If you are downloading and installing the software manually you can obtain the download at http://nucleuscms.org/download.php You will need to unzip the folder with your favorite zip utility such as WinZip. If you are using Windows XP you can just right click on the zip file and choose the unzip option. Often times if you just double click the folder it will unzip as well.
Once the folder has been unzipped to your desktop you will be needing to upload your folder to your server using an FTP client such as Filezilla, CuteFTP, or SmartFTP. An FTP client enables you to transfer large amounts of files quickly and directly into where you would like it to be on your hosting server without any long time manual hassles of uploading each file alone.
Once you have entered you host address, username, and password (all things that should have been in your welcome email when you signed up with your hosting account), the FTP client connects your computer directly to your server.
Depending on what hosting company you are with, your files might be listed under www. or public-html.
Drag the nucleuscms folder with your mouse to the left hand side and drop it in the folder on your right (whatever folder you created for your blog) or into your root directory if you plan to have it for you main page/site layout.
Make sure to upload .php files in ASC II mode. It may not work otherwise. As long as you are doing a simple extraction and you upload the folder as created you should have the files remain intact as required.
You will need to change the CHMOD settings (permissions) on a few files. The following are the changes needed:
- config.php - change to 666 (allows to update automatically instead of manually)
- /media/directory - change to 777
- all files under /skins/directory - to be able to change and edit SkinFiles plugin change to 666 or to be able to create new files change to 777
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Mambo is an open source content management system which is currently being managed by an Australian non-profit corporation founded in 2005. Although the Mambo Foundation http://mambo-foundation.org didn’t begin the development of Mambo, it has made the support and development of Mambo its primary objective.
Mambo is free software, using PHP and MySQL to create a dynamic web site which supports the organization and creation of documents and other content interesting to your site visitors. Because of the extensibility of Mambo, it can be used to create portals, as well as complex corporate intranets and applications.
Software and Server Requirements
Mambo is quite easy to install, and has simple server requirements. Like most PHP based GNU/GPL open source programs, you simply need a server running Windows, BSD, or Linux with the following options.
It is recommended that you have the GD, Zlib, FTP, XML, IconV, GetText, and MBString extensions as part of your PHP installation.Mambo has been designed to work with any web browser software on any operating system. You will need to test it thoroughly if you make any changes to the base software, and after you have installed any Mambot extensions.
Installing Mambo
Mambo is available through a variety of control panel applications such as Fantastico’s cPanel and Plesk. If you have a control panel application running on your web host, be sure to check there for the latest version of Mambo. If your server will install it for you, you can be up and running within just a few minutes. A manual install takes a bit longer, but can still easily be completed with access to both your database server and the FTP portal of your web server. If you need to manually install Mambo, you can use the following steps:
1. Download Mambo from www.mambo-foundation.org by clicking the mambo cms download link in the right hand column.
2. Select the Mambo Core Complete package for download for the current version. When asked, click Save on the File Download dialog window.
3. Once the download is complete, extract the files to your hard drive, maintaining the integrity of the directory structure within the ZIP or TAR file.
4. Using FTP software, log into your web server and upload all of the files onto your server, maintaining their original directory structure.
5. Create a database on your server to hold your Mambo installation and information. Write down the information you used when creating this database. This information is required to complete the installation.
6. Open up a Web browser to the installation folder on your server. For example: http://www.mywebserver.com/installation/ 
7. Read through the Pre-Installation Check. It will give you a list of files and folders that need to have file permissions changed. Use your FTP program to alter these settings using the CHMOD or File Permissions function of that software.
8. Reload the page to ensure that you have properly changed all of the specified File Attributes.
9. Click Next, and agree to the GNU GPL.
10. Click Next, and provide the database login information you specified when you the database was created.
11. Click OK, and verify that you wish to install the sample data.
12. Specify a name for the site.
13. Click Next, and specify the administrator’s email. A password is already provided. You can change it if you wish.
14. Click Next, and copy the information given to you for the configuration.php file. Make a copy of the configuration.php-dist file, and rewrite its contents with this information. Save it with the name configuration.php.
15. Upload your new configuration.php file to your web server using your FTP software.
16. Delete the installation directory on your server.
Mambo Features
Mambo is a feature rich software, with an easy to use interface that may belie its strength and power as a full fledged CMS system with powerful and easy to use tools.
Content Management System:
Mambo uses a WYSIQYG editor to create and edit pages so that the administrator doesn’t need to know code. This allows you to create nested or flat content hierarchies all through your web browser without needing to upload additional content, or manipulate your database through any other interface. You can add images to your content directly through the Administrators interface, or link to images that have already been uploaded to the server through FTP. Mambo allows you to preview your content without making it live on your site, ensuring that you get your content “just right” before anyone else has the opportunity to view it. Once your content is live, it can be incorporated within the site search engine, or included in an RSS feed for dispersal to other sites.
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