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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

Time for action - adding a content block for subtitles


Let's see how you can define an additional content block for subtitles.

  1. 1. Open the main template of your website (Layout | Templates).

  2. 2. Add the following code between the title and content of your page:

    <h1>{title}</h1>
    <h2>{content block="Subtitle" oneline="true" wysiwyg="false"}</h2>
    
    {content}
    
  3. 3. Open any page based on this template (Content | Pages), and find the Subtitle field above the Content field.

  4. 4. Enter the subtitle, save the page, and view the page in the browser. You should see the text entered as a subtitle below the page title.

What just happened?

You have added an additional content block to the template. In this way, the editor of the page can enter structured data that is exactly placed in the template. The tag for the additional content block is shown as an input field in the admin console, and its content is displayed on the website at the place where it is defined in the main template.

You...