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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

Working with existing templates


You will find all existing templates in your CMS in the admin console. Click on Layout | Templates to see all templates available in your installation. If you did not install any sample content, then only one template is available.

In the strictest sense, we have to differentiate between templates and themes. A template is just a part of a theme. A theme consists of one or more templates and one or more stylesheets. Some themes optionally include menu templates as well. So if you talk about the complete design of your website, you should think about themes. Different page layouts (1-column, 2-column, or others) within one theme are called templates in CMS Made Simple.

You can easily add ready-to-use templates to your website without any HTML or CSS knowledge by using some resources for the themes: