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CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

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CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

CMS Made Simple is a an open source content management system that allows rapid website development in a fraction of the normal time, avoiding hours of coding by providing modules and 3rd Party add-ons. With this book in hand you will be able to harness the power of this modular and extendable content management system at your fingertips.This guide for CMS Made Simple is based on practical and working solutions allowing you to understand how this powerful and simple application can support you in your daily work. The workshop helps you create engaging, effective, and easy-to-use CMS websites for businesses, clubs, or organizations.This is a step- by-step case study, aimed at helping you build a complete professional website with CMS Made Simple. You can take a ready-to-use template or implement your own custom design, enrich the website with features like a photo gallery, an e-commerce solution with PayPal checkout, and forms of any complexity or popular JQuery effects and finish it off by optimizing it for search engines. The useful HTML and CSS code snippets are optimized and can be easily adapted for your own projects. Chapter by chapter you will put yourself in the role of web designer, developer, administrator, and business manager, thus learning every aspect needed for building rich websites that are very simple to manage.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
CMS Made Simple 1.6
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Troubleshooting


While designing and configuring websites, you will surely encounter some issues. There is a solution for each problem if you know how and where to get help.

If you install CMS Made Simple with sample content and templates, then you will get the well documented content pages, templates, and stylesheets with a new installation of CMS Made Simple. They are an invaluable way of introducing yourself to the application and getting to know how it works. Read all these pages thoroughly and save them for future reference.

CMS Made Simple Wiki

The purpose of this Wiki is not only to allow the CMS Made Simple community to collaborate in the documentation process, but to also give you an appropriate and easy way to find information. This documentation is made by CMS Made Simple users and partly covers more languages than just English. However, a major part of the Wiki still remains in English. You will find the documentation on http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org.

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