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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

Using Image Manager


Surely, you would like to add images to your website. Whether they are placed in the content of your pages or used in templates or photo galleries, they have to be uploaded to your web host first. You should optimize your images before displaying them on your website. Do not upload images that are larger than 200KB. This restriction is not from CMS Made Simple. You can upload and display even larger images with Image Manager. The restriction is suggested in consideration of your visitors who want your website to load quickly. If you use large images, your website will load very slowly, and a certain percentage of your visitors will close the browser before they have seen what you offer on the website.

Note

The rule of thumb

One image should not be larger than 20KB and all images on one page together should not account for more than 200KB.

Resize your images with graphics program before using them on the website. Or, use the built-in image editor in CMS Made Simple to resize...