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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

User notifications


There is a notification area in the admin console of CMS Made Simple located below the main menu.

You saw the message just after the installation of CMS Made Simple advising you about the next steps to secure and configure the system. Later on, this area is used to notify us when a new version of CMS Made Simple is released. The News module uses the area to notify when there are some unpublished news articles that must be approved and published.

Normally, each user logged into the admin console is able to read these notifications even if it is something that is not devoted to him.

You can disable notifications in the admin console. Click on Site Admin | Global Settings, and select the tab Advanced Setup. Deselect the field Allow users to view notifications and the messages will disappears.

Pop quiz - users and permissions

  1. 1. What is a role?

    1. a. A bunch of permissions.

    2. b. Another term only for editors.

    3. c. A term for a special visitor group.

    4. d. A term for visitors, whose permissions...