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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

Summary


At the end of this chapter, you should have a clean installation of CMS Made Simple.

Specifically, we covered:

  • Installation of the program: CMS Made Simple is delivered with a simple installation program that guides you step-by-step through the setup process. We have performed the steps to get CMS Made Simple running.

  • Overview of the admin console: The admin console is like a cockpit in a plane. It is a place from where you can control the entire website. In the course of this book, you will learn every part in more detail.

  • Sending e-mails: You have configured CMS Made Simple so that it can send mails from the admin console. If you forget your admin password, then you will receive a reminder e-mail with instructions on how to recover it. All core and most of the third-party modules of CMS Made Simple rely on this functionality. Once configured, you do not need to make it for each module separately.

In the next chapter, we will see how you create the website structure and build website...