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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 a sitemap


Let's create a sitemap in the page Sitemap that we had created in Chapter 3, Creating Pages and Navigation. If you do not have the page, then please create it now.

  1. 1. In the admin console, open the page Sitemap (Content | Pages).

  2. 2. Add the Smarty tag {menu template="minimal_menu.tpl"} to the content of the page.

  3. 3. Click on Apply, and use the magnifying glass icon beside the button Apply to see the result on the website. It should look as shown in the following screenshot:

What just happened?

Using the already known Smarty tag {menu}, you have added a sitemap to the website. It displays the complete structure of the website with all pages that are marked as Shown in Menu (tab Options). You can refine the output of the {menu} tag with further parameters:

  • show_all="1": This option will show all pages even if they are set to not be shown in the menu. However, it still will not display inactive pages.

  • number_of_levels="1": This setting will help to limit...