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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 - creating search engine friendly URLs


To enable search engine friendly URLs on your website, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. Start FileZilla or any other FTP browser of your choice.

  2. 2. Connect to your hosting and select the file config.php for editing. (You can also copy the file to your local disk for editing and upload it after the following changes have been made).

  3. 3. Search config.php for the section "URL Settings" and replace:

    $config['url_rewriting'] = 'none';
    

    with

    $config['url_rewriting'] = 'mod_rewrite';
    
  4. 4. Close, save, and upload the file back to your web hosting.

  5. 5. Further, using FileZilla or any other FTP browser of your choice, open the doc directory.

  6. 6. Move the htaccess.txt file found in the doc directory to the root directory of your website (it is the same directory where the file config.php is present).

  7. 7. Rename the moved file to .htaccess (the period at the beginning belongs to the new filename!).

  8. 8. View your website in a browser, click on the top navigation...