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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

Why CMS Made Simple?


You have decided to build a website with CMS Made Simple. Good choice! CMS Made Simple has several advantages:

  • It's free for personal and commercial use.

  • It's simple. You won't need more than half an hour to introduce your customer to the usage of the CMS. It is mostly intuitive.

  • It's flexible in design. Any design that is created in HTML and CSS can be ported to CMS Made Simple. There are no restrictions.

  • It's modular. The basic functionality of CMS Made Simple can be extended by installing over 100 additional modules that are offered for free on the official website.

  • It's popular. You are not alone. A large international community helps you to solve your individual issues. Thousands of websites are already built using CMS Made Simple, so you are not going to be alone.

  • It's open source. You can create your own functionality the way you need.

You can avoid provider lock-in to a certain proprietary closed source CMS solution. If a provider of proprietary software decides to charge you more, goes out of business, or does not want to incorporate desired new functionalities, then there's nothing you can do. With an Open Source CMS, if you face a problem that you can't solve on your own, you can at least hire a programmer who will solve it for you.