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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 - custom translation of the module


You have created a new module and need a German translation for it.

  1. 1. With an FTP browser of your choice, for example, FileZilla, connect to your web hosting.

  2. 2. In the modules folder, look for the folder that contains your module; in our example, it is bwproducts.

  3. 3. Download the file en_US.php from the folder modules/bwproducts/lang to your local disk.

  4. 4. Rename the file to de_DE.php, and make your translation with any text editor.

  5. 5. Upload the translated file de_DE.php to the folder modules/bwproducts/lang/ext.

What just happened?

The language of the module is taken from the global settings of the website (Site Admin | Global Settings, field Default language for the frontend). If the language file for the module is not found, then CMS Made Simple will automatically use the file en_US.php.

You have created a new file for your language, renamed it according to the ISO language naming conventions, translated it into your language, and uploaded...