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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 news on the page


  1. 1. Open the page Announcements for editing (Content | Pages).

  2. 2. Add the Smarty tag {news} at the place where news articles should be displayed, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. 3. Click on Apply, and see the result of this Smarty tag on your website. It should look as follows:

What just happened?

With only one short Smarty tag, you can display the first news article on your website. This article is already added with the standard installation of CMS Made Simple. But where can this article be edited and how can new articles be created?

Adding news

All news that has ever been created can be found in the admin console. Open Content | News. You see the admin area of this module with many settings. On the first tab, Articles, you can search through the news if you have got lots of them. But at this point, you have just one news article that is displayed below the list and called News Module Installed. This news article is created automatically...