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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 a test area for the designer


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

  2. 2. Click on Add New Content and create an inactive Section Header named Design Test as shown:

  1. 3. Click on Submit.

  2. 4. Click on Add New Content again, choose the section header Design Test (created in step 2) in the field Parent. Select the Options tab, scroll down, and select the user or the whole group Designer in the field Additional Editors.

  3. 5. Click on Submit.

  4. 6. Log out and log in again as Designer. Click on Content | Pages to see the test page.

What just happened?

You have created a new page and placed it below an inactive Section Header. The pages placed below inactive pages cannot be displayed in the website structure. Even if you use the parameter show_all with the Smarty plugin menu (for example, in the sitemap) the page will not be displayed. However, it is active, and it can be accessed directly through the magnifying glass icon, and can be used by the designer as a test area...