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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

Optional modules for the e-commerce suite


There are some more modules that you can use together with this e-commerce suite to enrich the functionality:

  • Flat Rate Taxes: Allows you to apply flat rate taxes to any or all products in the module Products.

  • warehouse taxes: Calculates taxes for a product based on the US state the warehouse is in, and the US state the customer is situated.

  • FlatRateShipping: Provides an interface to set up some simple weight shipping rules, and to calculate the cost of shipping based on its total weight.

  • Destination Based Shipping: Allows the calculation of flat shipping costs based on destination country, and number of items. It does not consider weight in calculations.

  • PriceBasedShipping: Allows the calculation of shipping costs based on the pre-tax total order price.

  • Promotions: Allows you to create and manage promotions/sales in the order process. A sale will consist of a start date, end date, a discount or offer, and a set of conditions. Conditions can include...