Slice

Mambo lets you organize your content into sections and categories. If you have a small site without a lot of content, it probably makes sense to just use one section and create your categories there. This is how the default installation of a student organization site is set-up. There is one section called "articles" and the categories all fall under there.

Once your content grows you can create new sections and then create categories in those sections. If you think about it like a filing system, sections are drawers and categories are file folders.

To add a new section or category, you have to log in to the administration, or back-end, side of Mambo. There is a link for this called "Site Administration" on the front page of a default UNC install, or you can get to it by adding a /administrator to your site name. Once you log-in, click on the Content menu then on either Section Manager or Category Manager.

Mambo will only display in the front-end sections and categories that contain content items. If you create a new category in a section and then click on that section in the menu you will not see it appear until you create some content in that category. As soon as you create some content in a section, the category will appear.