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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

Understanding global content blocks


You can use global content blocks to add some repeated parts containing text and/or images in your website. These blocks contain the same information and can be used at any place in your template or in the content of any page. For example, you can create a contact box with the address and phone number of your company as a global content block and then add it at multiple places in your website.

Sure, you can design the contact box every time you need it and add the contact information individually for each page. You can even copy the box from one page and paste it into another. It works until the phone number of your company changes. Now, you have to open each page where the contact box is added and change the phone number. Depending on the number of the pages, you could spend hours changing every page. Using the global content block, you can edit all the information in one place and just call the same content from any place on your website. If the phone...