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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

Creating pages and navigation


First add pages that are on the first level in your hierarchy (marked in bold in the preceding diagram). Then add the pages from the second level (marked in grey). You can adjust the page alias and menu text.

Add some sample text to the pages or write down what each single page will contain. If you have some ideas that are nice but should not be available on the website from the very beginning, then create some inactive pages holding these ideas.

Do not create more than two levels at the beginning. Even though it is possible to create a large number of levels, your visitors will find the navigation of the website more user friendly if they do not have to click 5 or 6 times to reach the desired information. It is better to start with two-level navigation to simplify learning layout and design in the next chapter.

The result of the website structure presented above is as follows:

Please note that the Start page has been renamed to Our Company.