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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 - displaying tags in dependence of the page


  1. 1. In the admin console, click on Layout | Theme Manager.

  2. 2. Select the checkbox on the line where the Business World template is, and enter a name in the field Export Theme As:

  1. 3. Click on Export.

  2. 4. In the download window of the browser, choose where on your hard drive this XML file should be saved.

You can either open the XML file or save it as backup for your design.

Pop quiz - testing what you have learned

  1. 1. Where in the admin console can you find all the templates, which you have at your disposal in your project?

    1. a. Layout | Templates

    2. b. Layout | Stylesheets | Templates

    3. c. Content | Pages | Main | Templates

    4. d. Extensions |Templates

  2. 2. How can you replace static text with dynamical components?

    1. a. Integrate Smarty tags like {content} in the template.

    2. b. Integrate Smarty tags like<content> in the template.

    3. c. Integrate modules like 'DynTxt' in the CSS stylesheet.

    4. d. Integrate a Smarty tag like<breadcrumbs> in the content...