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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 11. Administration and Troubleshooting

Once the website you have created is ready and running, you have to take a closer look at the tasks you have as a webmaster during the lifetime of the website. Depending on the nature of the website, you must regularly make backups if you or your customer continuously add and edit the content or change the design. It is also recommended to watch the development of CMS Made Simple and make updates to keep the website secure and be able to use the newest features.

This chapter helps you administer your CMS Made Simple website once it is running. In this chapter, we will see how to:

  • Take a backup of your website

  • Move it to another web host

  • Upgrade your installation or modules

  • Optimize the performance

  • Secure and protect your website in the most efficient way

  • Get help from the community

You are not supposed to read the whole chapter. You can start reading from any section, as they do not depend on each other. Upgrading CMS Made Simple is the part that you...