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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

Summary


In this chapter, you have learned how to use and customize standard modules (core modules) installed with CMS Made Simple.

Specifically, we covered:

  • How to use global content blocks in the pages. A global content block is not really a module, but an additional feature that can be used to display the same content in different locations on your website.

  • Using news feature for adding news articles to the website, placing them in different categories and displaying them, depending on the category at different locations on your website.

  • Using and customizing a search feature for the content of the pages or news articles on the website.

  • Using the Image Manager to upload images to your website, edit them online, and using them in the content or in the template of the website.

  • Using the Menu Manager to display any part of your website structure in the content. You learned how a sitemap or any dynamic list of pages can be created.

  • Using the Printing module to create a print version of the website...