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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

Archiving changes and restoring them


Once the Archiver module is installed, it keeps a copy of every content page, global content block, stylesheet, or template that is edited or deleted. It also provides the possibility to restore anything in the archive to the current state. This means that your users can edit various aspects of the site, and you can reverse their changes later.

To install the Archiver module, open the admin console, and click on Extensions | Module Manager. Click on the Available Modules tab, and then click the Download & Install link which can be found in the same line as the module name. The module is installed.

After installation, the module will automatically start saving changes into the archives. For example, if you would like to track the changes of the start page, open the page, and save it without any changes, so that the first version of the page is created. This version will be used as a base for future restorations.