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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

Additional content and controls for editors


Often websites are edited by people who are not well-versed in HTML. However, you would like to give them as much control as possible, even if they do not have any special knowledge. There are some concepts in CMS Made Simple that help you and your editors.

You can add more than one content block to the website if your layout requires physical separation of the content on one page. And you can use page attributes to give editors more control over the layout and the style of the website as well.

Additional content blocks

A page can have one or more content areas or content blocks. The first one must be {content}, otherwise there will not be any content area for the editors in the admin console. To add more content blocks to your template, use the Smarty tag {content block="block name"}. This block will appear as a text area when you edit a page, and its content will be shown at the same place when the page is displayed to the visitor.

You can also...