CMS Made Simple 1.9 Beginner?s Guide: LITE Edition
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Sofia Hauschildt
Sofia Hauschildt is a tutor for web mastering and web development, who started designing and developing professional websites in 1995, just before her graduation in computer science. With experience as a Data Warehouse developer and ERP consultant she became a self-employed tutor. During her career she has been contracted by IT and management academies, the German army, several city administrations, and international companies like Siemens. Her work as a tutor is always focused on practical training combined with a theoretical background in order to get fast and handy results. In her publications she shares not only solid knowledge but her personal experience and shows a simple and powerful way of creating websites for ambitious beginners. Building websites is an amazing chance to communicate with the whole world and to discover it as well.
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CMS Made Simple 1.9 Beginner?s Guide - Sofia Hauschildt
Table of Contents
CMS Made Simple 1.9 Beginner's Guide: LITE
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Time for action - heading
What just happened?
Pop quiz - heading
Have a go hero - heading
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Building Websites with CMS Made Simple
What is a CMS?
A CMS versus a website builder
Why CMS Made Simple?
Preparing for installation
Browser
FTP browser
File archiver
Uploading CMS Made Simple's files
Summary
2. Getting Started
Installing CMS Made Simple step-by-step
Choosing a language
Step 1: Validating file integrity (optional)
Step 2: Checking requirements
Step 3: Testing file creation mask (optional)
Step 4: Admin account information
Step 5: Database information
Sample content and templates
Step 6: Creating tables
Step 7: Installation is complete
Understanding the admin console
Finishing the installation
Sending e-mails with CMS
Known issues
Summary
3. Creating Pages and Navigation
Creating pages
Time for action - adding a new page to the website
What just happened?
Editing pages
Time for action - editing existing pages
What just happened?
Previewing changes
Changing the page alias
Deleting pages
Formatting page content
Configuring TinyMCE
Time for action - activating search and replace function
What just happened?
Adding meta tags
Time for action - adding meta tags to pages
What just happened?
Adding global meta tags
Understanding page hierarchy
Time for action - adding subpages to a website
What just happened?
Breadcrumbs
Search engine friendly URLs
Time for action - creating search engine friendly URLs
What just happened?
Getting more success from hierarchy
Controlling the navigation of the website
Time for action - preventing pages from displaying in the navigation
What just happened?
What is your start page?
More navigation control with content types
Efficient work with pages
Creating a new page as a copy of existing one
Changing multiple pages at once
Pop quiz - creating pages and navigation
Have a go hero - create all pages for company website
Creating pages and navigation
Summary
A. Pop Quiz Answers
Index
CMS Made Simple 1.9 Beginner's Guide: LITE
CMS Made Simple 1.9 Beginner's Guide: LITE
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First published: April 2011
Production Reference: 2200411
Published by Packt Publishing Ltd. 32 Lincoln Road Olton Birmingham, B27 6PA, UK.
ISBN 978-1-849516-40-2
www.packtpub.com
Cover Image by Vinayak Chittar (<vinayak.chittar@gmail.com>)
Credits
Author
Sofia Hauschildt
Reviewers
Jeremy Bass
Yury V. Zaytsev
Acquisition Editor
Sarah Cullington
Technical Editors
Hithesh Uchil
Indexer
Hemangini Bari
Production Coordinator
Kruthika Bangera
Cover Work
Kruthika Bangera
About the Author
Sofia Hauschildt is a web mastering and web development tutor, who started designing and developing professional websites in 1995 just before her graduation in Computer Science. With experience as a data warehouse developer and ERP consultant, she became a self-employed tutor. During her career, she has been contracted by IT and management academies, the German army, several city administrations, and international companies such as Siemens. Her work as a tutor is always focused on practical training combined with a theoretical background in order to get fast and handy results.
I would like to express my gratitude to all those who gave me the possibility to complete this book. I want to thank my husband Jens for investing a huge amount of time in the first reviews of this book and his patient love. Furthermore, I have to thank Yury V. Zaytsev for his stimulating support and interesting discussions.
A special thanks goes to my parents who encouraged me to go ahead with this book and gave me incredible mental support.
About the Reviewers
Jeremy Bass began