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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

Adding forms with the module Form Builder


Almost every business page has a contact, feedback, or inquiry form. The Form Builder module helps you to create forms with any level of complexity without writing any HTML. You can add different input fields to it, set validation rules, and define how the data from the form must be stored and/or sent by e-mail.

Install the Form Builder module in the same way as you installed other third-party modules on the website (for example, Questions or Gallery). After installation, the admin area of the module can be found in Extensions | Form Builder.

Before you start configuring the module, ensure that the module CMSMailer is properly configured (refer Chapter 2, Getting Started) and you are able to send e-mails from your CMS Made Simple website.