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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

Chapter 10. Advanced Use of CMS Made Simple

This chapter includes some tips for advanced webmasters who are creating websites with CMS Made Simple. You do not need to read the entire chapter; you can just pick up the sections that are most important to you.

In this chapter, we will:

  • Learn how to develop multilingual websites with CMS Made Simple

  • Create additional layout control possibilities for the editors of the website

  • Make some search engine optimizations

  • Work with user-defined tags and the event manager to implement our own functionality or define custom workflows

You will need basic PHP knowledge to follow instructions in this chapter. So let's get on with it.

Localization and translation

The admin console of CMS Made Simple is translated in over 20 languages. As you already know from Chapter 2, CMS Made Simple is distributed in two versions. The base version contains just the English language files, while the full version includes all language files.

If you need only one language in addition...