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CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

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CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

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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.
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CMS Made Simple 1.6
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Summary


We learned a lot in this chapter about templates and design with CMS Made Simple.

Specifically, we covered:

  • Working with existing templates: You learned how to import templates into your installation and assign them to one or more pages.

  • Creating a new template and stylesheet from scratch: You started to create a simple template with CMS Made Simple to see how static HTML interacts with dynamic Smarty tags. You also learned how to attach stylesheets to a template.

  • Creating navigation: It was very important to see how easily the navigation of the website can be created. You created a top navigation and a sidebar with only one Smarty plugin {menu}. You also saw how you can control the output of your navigation with some simple parameters. Later on, you created your own template to see how the principle of "template in template" is covered in CMS Made Simple.

  • Porting templates: You created your HTML and CSS template in any editor of your choice. Once the template was finished, you could...

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