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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

Chapter 6. Users and Permissions

This chapter is important to read if you are going to grant access to the admin console of your website to other users. Users with access to the admin console of CMS Made Simple are different from standard visitors to the website. In this chapter, we are talking about users involved in the development of the website. We speak about editors, who write content, create and edit pages; designers, who edit templates and stylesheets; and administrators, who manage website modules, other users, and their permissions in the admin console.

You do not need to read this chapter if you are the only person who develops the website and thus has an unrestricted administrator account. However, if you (or your customer) have a team where different tasks are shared between the team members, then you have to understand how you can grant different permissions to different users. It will safeguard your website and makes it simpler for a CMS Made Simple novice to concentrate on...