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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 - creating a new user


  1. 1. In the admin console, click on Users & Groups | Users.

  2. 2. Click on Add New User, and fill in the fields, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. 3. Click on Submit.

  2. 4. Log out (CMS | Logout) and log in as Peter. The admin console should now look as shown in the following screenshot:

What just happened?

You have created a new user without assigning him to any group. This user can log in to the admin console. There are only two main menu items that the user can access—CMS and My Preferences. The user can change his name, password, and e-mail address in the My Account section. He can define his personal preferences such as language, admin template, set default start page for the admin console, and more. He is also able to manage his personal shortcuts.

It is important to define an e-mail address for every user, as this e-mail is used to recover the password, in case the user forgets it. On the login screen of the admin console of CMS Made Simple (when...