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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

Upgrading CMS Made Simple


The CMS Made Simple development team improves the application constantly; therefore new versions are released regularly. You should ensure that you upgrade your system consequently. Upgrades are important for several reasons.

  • Free community support: You will probably get no help for old releases, as there are only a few users who will still be working with the old version. The development team will not fix any issues in old versions, as a lot of issues are already solved in newer releases, and you are always encouraged to install the latest version.

  • Features: In new releases, new features are implemented. If you work with an old version, then you have to reinvent the wheel if you need something already developed and existing.

  • Third-party modules: Developers of additional modules release new versions, including new functionality and corrected bugs. Newer versions of the modules often assume that the newest version of CMS Made Simple is installed. Sometimes, the...