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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

Sending out newsletters


With CMS Made Simple and the Newsletter Made Simple (NMS) module, you can send out newsletters to your customers or any visitors of your website who have subscribed to the newsletter.

You can define one or more user lists, thus separating your customers from the visitors and being able to send different newsletter to each user list. One user can be assigned to one or more lists. You create a template that contains the e-mail subject and text, so you don't need to start each message from a blank page, you can use a template that has already been created. However, you can write newsletters without templates as well.

To send out a newsletter, you will choose an existing message and a list of users that are going to get this message. This will be called a Job. The job will be processed manually at the time you activate it.

Install the NMS module from the list of available modules in the admin console (Extensions | Module Manager). Pay attention to the modules found on...