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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

Backing up your website


Backing up means making copies of your files and database. You need to backup regularly in case something goes wrong on your web hosting. Your data could be lost due to some hosting issues or through webmaster mistakes. Therefore, it is important to have backup files to be able to restore your website.

To backup a website made with CMS Made Simple, it is not sufficient just to copy all the files found on the server with FTP. Those files are only a small fraction of your website. The most important part is the database where all your text and designs (except image files) are stored.

In CMS Made Simple, you have two modules (one is used for file backups and one for database backups). You would probably not be able to use the modules on free web hosting or on the hosting with strong restrictions. To check if an easy backup of your website with the following described modules is possible, try to install the first module to backup files.

Backing up website files

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