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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

Managing news articles with module News


Until now, we have added content pages which are under the control of the hierarchy manager of CMS Made Simple. For announcements or events in your company, you use the core module News. This module allows you to create quick, short statements, and then place them at any place on your website, templates, or pages. Your news should be really new. Nothing is as disappointing as websites containing news dated a year ago. "Aged" news gives a website an abandoned look.

For your company website, you can announce the last project the company accomplished or any customer events. With the news section, you can also advertise the new products or services that your company offers. You can present your new customers or partners and wish your customers on holidays. When the visitors of the website find news articles dated just some days ago, they know that your website (and your company) is alive.

If you cannot imagine what could be announced on the website,...