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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 the first user account


We are going to add the first customer account to the website.

  1. 1. In the admin console, click on Users & Groups |Frontend User Management.

  2. 2. Click on the User Properties tab.

  3. 3. Click the Add Property link and fill in the form, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. 4. Click on Submit.

  2. 5. Open the Groups tab, and click on the Add Group link.

  3. 6. Fill in the fields, and assign the e-mail field created above to the group, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. 7. Click on Submit.

  2. 8. Click on the Users tab and then on the Add User link.

  3. 9. Fill in the fields, as shown in the following screenshot (provide a valid e-mail address!), and assign the user to the Customers group:

  1. 10. Click on Next, and enter the e-mail address of the customer again.

  2. 11. Click on Submit.

  3. 12. Log in with the customer data (Username = Email Address of the customer) on the page Service Desk to see how it works. If you are logged in, the page should look as shown in the following...