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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 - module installation


Let's install an additional module that allows us to manage FAQ on the website.

  1. 1. In the admin console, click on Extensions | Module Manager, and choose the tab Available Modules tab.

  2. 2. In the list of modules, select the letter Q, and find the module Questions.

  3. 3. Click on the Dependencies link to see what modules have to be installed first.

  1. 4. Return to the list of available modules (Extensions | Module Manager) and select the letter C. Find the module CGExtensions, and click on the Download & Install link. The module CGExtensions will be installed.

  2. 5. Return to the list of available modules (Extensions | Module Manager), and select the letter Q again. Find the Questions module.

  3. 6. Click on Download & Install. The module Questions will be installed.

  4. 7. Open the page FAQ for edit (Content | Pages).

  5. 8. Add the Smarty tag in the page, as shown in the following screenshot:

  6. 9. Click on Apply, and then click the magnifying glass icon beside the Apply...