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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 - creating news categories


We are going to create a new category that will contain job offers and then show the list of jobs on the start page.

  1. 1. In the admin console, click on Content | News.

  2. 2. Under the Categories tab, click on Add Category and create a new category with the name Vacancies, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. 3. Click on Submit.

  4. 4. Under the Articles tab, click Add Article and create a new article with the following information:

    1. a. Category: Vacancies

    2. b. Title: Marketing Manager

    3. c. Content: We are looking for an excellent person who will be able to develop the European market for our company. Please contact our human resources department.

  5. 5. Click on Submit

  6. 6. Open the start page of the website for editing and add the Smarty tag somewhere in the Content field, as shown in the following screenshot:

  7. 7. Save the page, and see the changes on the website.

What just happened?

You have used the News module to display job opportunities on the start page. You have...