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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

Installing CMS Made Simple step-by-step


The CMS Made Simple installer is started automatically when you enter your domain name in the address bar of the browser. The installer assists you step-by-step during the entire installation process.

Choosing a language

First you choose the installation language. In the drop-down field, you see all languages available in the installation package. In the base version of CMS Made Simple, you can choose only English. The full version has more languages included.

Consider that the language you choose here is used only during the installation. The language of the website and admin console can be changed later on. Click on Submit.

Step 1: Validating file integrity (optional)

In the first step, you can optionally validate the integrity of the installation file. This will help you identify potential problems, for example if some files have been damaged during FTP transfer or are incomplete due to network issues. If there were no issues while uploading the files...