Modules and tags
Addons (or CMS Made Simple modules and tags) are used to enrich your website with additional functions. There are a lot of useful modules and tags that do not belong to the standard installation of CMS...
View ArticleCMS Made Simple Templates
CMS Made Simple is a perfect tool especially for designers. Entire themes are built from old and good known HTML and CSS. You can also integrate any JQuery plugin into your templates. There are no...
View ArticleHow to create CMS Website
Teaching creating websites for years I decided to gather my partly unstructured notes on this website. You are right here if you are looking for creating website with CMS, featured additional modules,...
View ArticlePrepare to setup CMS Made Simple
Register website domain and get web hosting. Website domain You are going to setup a website on your own website address. It is important to have own website domain. Using a...
View ArticleSetup CMS Made Simple step by step
The files have been uploaded to the hosting. Type your domain name in the address bar of the browser to start installation and follow the installation steps. Step 1 Choose the installation language. If...
View ArticleHow to create an own template?
In this article you learn how to create a simple template for CMS Made Simple. To be more precise, in CMS Made Simple you create a theme that consists of at least one template and one stylesheet....
View ArticleCreating pages and navigation
In CMS Made Simple the navigation of your site is formed from the existing pages. It means, that every page you created is automatically added to the navigation structure of the page. Add new page Go...
View ArticleRewrite URLs. Not only for search engines.
Search engine friendly URLs are website addresses that does not contain any dynamic components in it and thus are better readable for humans and search engines. Compare the 2 URLs below:...
View ArticleGlobal Settings
Global settings for your CMS Made Simple website allows you to mainly set defaults for your website, such as website name, default language, global metadata and sitedown message. In the admin panel go...
View ArticleAdditional modules for your website
With Module Manager you can easy add additional features to your website. Just to name some of them: Front End User (login functionality for your visitors), Google Sitemap, Image Gallery, Shop Made...
View ArticleWYSIWYG Editor (TinyMCE)
WYSIWYG Editor is the central and most important feature for every CMS. Editor helps you to add, edit and format you content without having any HTML knowledge. It displays the edited content the same...
View ArticleAdd news on the website
If you would like to add news articles on the website ask yourself if you have enough news at least once a month? Nothing is so sad as to see website news published a year or more ago. Do not spend...
View ArticleSearch content on the website
Searching on the website can be very helpful if you have a lot of content. There is rudimentary search function for CMS Made Simple that searches along with content pages and news articles. The visitor...
View ArticleMails from CMS with CMSMailer
The configuration of module CMSMailer is important since your CMS should be able to send e-mails. If you do not configure it, you will not even be able get an e-mail with new login information if you...
View ArticleUsing CMS Menu in Content
Navigation or menu is already pasted into your template. There is a top-navigation that displays pages in the first level of the page hierarchy. Some pages are not shown if you deselect “Show in Menu”...
View ArticleTags - small helpers
CMS Made Simple provides small helpers called tags. Tags (also called plug-ins) are very helpful for quick adding any dynamic information into content pages. You use them as placeholder containing...
View ArticleProtect forms with captcha
If visitors of your website can leave comments, register as member or use contact form, then you have to protect the forms with Captcha to avoid spam. Captchas are generated pictures that can be read...
View ArticleCreate Google Sitemap
CMS Made Simple can automatically generate Google Sitemap for your website. Moreover the Sitemap is automatically updated if you add new pages, remove old ones or just change the structure of the...
View ArticleAdditional plugins for the website
Contrary to the modules you can also use small helpers called tag. Tags do not have extended functionality such as modules but are very helpful for quick adding any customized output into templates or...
View ArticlePractice Tips and HowTo's
While giving support for CMS Made Simple and teaching my webmaster pupitls I am constantly have to answer the same questions. Normally the answer does not contain only few words but a complete howto....
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