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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 new page to the website


Your website requires a page where information about the company is represented. It is the page for the section Our Company in the website plan. Let's create a new page as follows:

  1. 1. In the admin console of your website, click on Content | Pages and then on the link Add New Content.

  2. 2. Fill in the fields Title and Content Type as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. 3. Click on Submit.

  4. 4. Click on the magnifying glass icon at the top-right of the admin console to view your website and find the new page added to the main navigation of the website.

What just happened?

You have just added a new page to your website. The page has the title Our Company and is now listed in current pages of your website in the admin console. The page is also automatically added to the main navigation of the website. It has sample company information in the content field. This text is displayed on the Our Company page on the website when you navigate to the page...