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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


We learned a lot in this chapter about how different modules in CMS Made Simple extend the features of your website.

In this chapter, we covered:

  • Gallery: How to create a photo gallery and create a custom template for the gallery from scratch.

  • Form Builder: How to create and customize forms like contact or feedback forms on the page, without any deep programming knowledge.

  • Newsletter: How to import e-mail addresses to the user list of the module Newsletter Made Simple and send out messages to existing e-mail lists.

  • YouTube videos: How to embed YouTube videos in the website. You do not need any special module to show single videos on the page. Discover the core functionality before looking for add-ons.

In this chapter, only some modules were explained. There are many more modules that have very sophisticated functionality and offer extended features for your website. Every week, new modules are developed for CMS Made Simple and updates are made to the existing ones.

In the next chapter...