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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

Displaying videos


Videos have become more and more popular on websites. Everyone can upload videos to YouTube, but only some people know that any of these videos can also be seamlessly integrated into websites. Open any video on YouTube website and look on the panel to the right of it.

There are two fields with the names URL and Embed. The first field contains the plain link to the video. The second field contains HTML code to display it.

Which field to use depends upon the place of the video on your website. If the video should be shown on every page of your website, you have to copy the HTML code from the field Embed, open your page template (Layout | Templates), and add the code at the place where the video should be shown on every page.

If the video should be shown in the page content on the single page, you have to open a page for editing in the admin console, and click on Turn WYSIWYG on/off below the Content field. Find the place in HTML source of the page where the video should...