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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 - creating a new template


Let us see how you can easily create a new HTML template in CMS Made Simple:

  1. 1. In the admin console of your website, select Layout | Templates.

  2. 2. Click on Add New Template at the bottom of the list.

  3. 3. On the next page, type the name of the new template, My first template.

  4. 4. Add HTML source code to the Content field, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. 5. Click on Submit.

  2. 6. In the list of templates, find your new template My first template, click on Set All Pages in the same line where your template name is, and confirm the message:

  1. 7. The message All pages modified! appears above the list of templates.

  2. 8. Click on the magnifying glass icon in the top-right corner of the admin console to see the result (Google Chrome was used as the web browser in this example):

What just happened?

You have created a new template with some simple HTML tags. You have then instructed CMS to use this newly created template on all pages of your website. In your browser...