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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 subpages to a website


Let's create four pages below the Our Company page according to the website plan.

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

  2. 2. Fill the fields Title and Content as shown in the following screenshot and choose the page 2. -Our Company from the drop-down field Parent.

  1. 3. Click on Submit.

  2. 4. Click on the triangle to expand the list of pages below the page Our Company and to view the subpage created.

  3. 5. Click on the magnifying glass icon beside the just created page to view the page on the website.

What just happened?

You have added a new page. This time you have selected a parent page placing the new page in the hierarchy below the parent one. In the admin console, you can see that the page is now indented under the parent page. It gets the number 2.1, saying that the page belongs to the page with number 2 and is its first child page. You will not find the page in the main navigation of the...