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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

Learning Smarty basics


You have learned how to use Smarty tags and refine them with a parameter so far. You have also ported an entire HTML template to CMS Made Simple. However, if you would like to create professional sophisticated designs, you will need more knowledge about Smarty. With the powerful combination of Smarty and HTML, there are no limits to the flexibility of the sites you design.

Working with Smarty variables

Smarty variables are much simpler than complex Smarty plugins. They are placeholders that contain plain information about the actual page ID, page alias, or position of the page in the hierarchy. Some Smarty variables that you are not aware of, are already defined in your template. You do not need to know or remember all of them if you know how you can figure out their names and values.