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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

Sending e-mails with CMS


CMS Made Simple sends e-mails with the module CMSMailer. The configuration of the CMSMailer module is very important. If you do not configure it, then you will not receive the e-mail with new login information, should you ever forget your administrator password. This module is also used by many other CMS Made Simple modules that send out e-mails such as FrontEndUsers, Orders, or FormBuilder.

You will see this notification in the dashboard of CMS Made Simple till you have configured the module.

In the admin console, in the main horizontal navigation, select Extensions | CMSMailer. Set the Character Set to utf-8. Then, choose sendmail in the Mailer method field. Fill the field From address with an existing e-mail address. When CMS sends e-mails, the recipient will see this e-mail as the sender address. You have to enter an existing e-mail address here, as due to spam and security settings on your web hosting, CMS Made Simple will probably not be able to send out e...