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CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

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CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

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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.
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CMS Made Simple 1.6
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Chapter 3. Creating Pages and Navigation

In this chapter, you will learn how to create new pages, edit existing pages, control the navigation of your website, and organize pages according to your website's plan. As a result, you will get a complete website structure, a kind of skeleton for your website.

Let's see how we can plan a website. Yes, we should plan before making anything material. You have to spend time on this step because you will in fact save time afterwards by avoiding the need to do some time-consuming rebuilding, recreating, or reorganizing of your website.

Take a piece of paper and write down the main parts of the website and its purpose. Write down the main idea of the website, then add the main parts (building your navigation structure) and proceed until you do not have any other ideas. Do not try to find any solution or the right tool to create your website at this time. Do not ask: "How would I realize this or that?". You have to hold everything you would like to see...

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