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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

Search engine optimization (SEO)


Nowadays, it is not enough to have a website alone. Even the most beautiful and useful page is meaningless, if it cannot be found in search engines. And just being present in the search engines does not answer a purpose of getting new customers. You should care about the ranking (the place) your page has in the search results, when the most important key words or phrases representing your business are entered.

In this section, you will find important information that will help you to improve your search ranking and get the most from your website.

Before you start to optimize your website made with CMS Made Simple, you should know that search engines are greedy for any kind of text on your website. They are not interested in CSS, JavaScript, or any other beautiful technology. The most important point to start with is writing good unique content. If you copy content from other pages, you will not succeed. Having unique content is the key for search engine...