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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

Porting a HTML template


Normally, you do not design a complete template from scratch in CMS Made Simple. You can use any HTML/CSS editor to create a design outside of CMS Made Simple. It is also possible that you have downloaded or purchased a ready-made HTML template or you work with a designer who has created the design for your website. In all the cases listed above, you get an HTML file, CSS file, and one or more images. In this section, we learn to port an HTML template to CMS Made Simple.

Imagine, you get an HTML template that looks like the following screenshot.

This template consists of three files: HTML, CSS, and a logo image in the upper-right corner. Notice that there is nothing but pure HTML and CSS at this point. Let us create a new CMS Made Simple template from the preceding template.