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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 9. E-commerce Workshop

CMS Made Simple is, as its name suggests, a content management system. In a CMS, data can be defined as almost anything—documents, movies, pictures, phone numbers, scientific data, and so on. CMS is generally used for storing, controlling, revising, and publishing content. They are not explicitly designed for e-commerce or community needs. For sophisticated online shops without any content management features, it is better to get a dedicated e-commerce application. The same applies to the typical community features like forum or chat.

However, if your website is heterogenic, then it is not just a content management system and has a mix of various features. You can use additional modules for basic functionality of other applications. In CMS Made Simple, there are some community modules such as Forum Made Simple (FMS) and Shootbox Made Simple, and a number of modules that cover basic e-commerce features.

A number of additional e-commerce modules for CMS Made...