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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


In this chapter, you learned how easily pages can be created and managed. You saw that the navigation of your website is built automatically from the existing pages.

Specifically, we covered the following:

  • Creating pages: You can create new pages from scratch or as a copy of an existing page.

  • Editing pages: You can change everything on the page after it has been created, such as title, content, menu text, or page alias.

  • Adding meta tags: Meta tags can be defined globally, if they are the same for each page. For individual meta tags on each specific page, you use the field Page Specific Metadata in the Options tab.

  • Page hierarchy: Pages can be organized in a tree hierarchy. It helps to keep your pages structured and control the top and subnavigation of the website intuitively.

  • Search engine friendly URLs: You modified the URLs for your pages. It gives you clean and pretty URLs that are quite noticeable for the visitors too.

  • Navigation control: Pages are displayed automatically in the...