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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

Module Orders


This module is designed for processing orders from the cart. This module handles billing and shipping addresses from the customer and either uses an external payment gateway (such as PayPal) to handle the payment process or performs manual e-mail-based invoicing. This module can also optionally collect credit card information and store it in the database for later offline processing.

Note

Even if the module offers the possibility, never collect credit card information in a low security shared hosting environment!

The Orders module keeps track of all orders, and allows for the specification of items like tracking numbers and confirmation numbers and sending e-mails to the customers related to a particular order.

The functionality of the module can be extended with even more modules that allow configuring different taxes, shipping costs, and promotion actions (like discount or promotion coupons).

This module has a lot of dependencies:

  • CGExtensions

  • FrontEndUsers

  • Products

  • CGSimpleSmarty...