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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

Time for action - adding meta tags to pages


Let's add some specific meta tags to the start page of our website.

  1. 1. In the admin console, open Content | Pages.

  2. 2. Click on the start page Start to edit it.

  3. 3. Switch to the Options tab.

  4. 4. In the field Page Specific Metadata, add meta tags that are specific to the page.

  1. 5. Click on Apply at the bottom of the page.

  2. 6. Click on the magnifier icon beside the Apply button.

  3. 7. See the head section of the website in the source code of the page.

What just happened?

You have added meta tags in plain HTML to the start page of your website. These meta tags appear only on this specific page. Generally, meta tags for the description and keywords should be different on each page.

Note

Any other tags (not only meta tags) for the head section of the generated page can be added here as well.

Adding global meta tags

Some global meta tags are already added to the standard installation of CMS Made Simple. You can see these meta tags in the source code of every page generated...