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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 the first gallery


Let's see how images from the folder uploads/images/Gallery can be displayed on the Photo Gallery page. Perform the following steps:

  1. 1. In the admin console, open the Photo Gallery page for editing (Content | Pages).

  2. 2. Enter the Smarty plugin in the Content field, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. 3. Click on Apply and then on the magnifying glass icon beside the Apply button to see the first gallery on the website.

What just happened?

You have uploaded some images into the folder /uploads/images/Gallery. This folder was automatically created after the module installation. Your first gallery is displayed on the Photo Gallery page.

You will find the admin area of the Gallery module in the admin console (Content | Gallery). Open the admin area, and click on the folder named Gallery to see what you can change in the module output. Change Gallery Title and Comment to suit your needs. Choose another Template for different blending effects in the...