CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide电子书

CMS Made Simple 1.6

Table of Contents

CMS Made Simple 1.6

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?

Case study website

Functional specifications

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

4. Design and Layout

Working with existing templates

Time for action—importing a ready-made template

What just happened?

Creating a new template

Time for action—creating a new template

What just happened?

Adding dynamic parts to templates

Time for action—adding Smarty tags to a template

What just happened?

Having control over the output

Time for action—adding Smarty parameters to the template

What just happened?

Using plugins in content

Adding stylesheets to the template

Creating a new stylesheet

Time for action—creating the stylesheet

What just happened?

Media types for stylesheets

Creating navigation for the website

Time for action—adding navigation to the template

What just happened?

Designing navigation—the pure CSS way

Time for action—design navigation with pure CSS

What just happened?

Adding sidebar navigation

Porting a HTML template

Time for action—porting a HTML template to CMS Made Simple

What just happened?

Learning Smarty basics

Working with Smarty variables

Time for action—getting Smarty variables

What just happened?

Controlling output with the IF function

Time for action—displaying tags in dependence of the page

What just happened?

Creating navigation template with Smarty loop

Time for action—creating a menu template

What just happened?

Exporting templates

Time for action—displaying tags in dependence of the page

Pop quiz—testing what you have learned

Have a go hero—creating custom templates

Summary

5. Using Core Modules

Understanding global content blocks

Time for action—adding a global content block to the website

What just happened?

Managing news articles with module News

Displaying news on the website

Time for action—displaying news on the page

What just happened?

Adding news

Time for action—adding news items

What just happened?

News categories

Time for action—creating news categories

What just happened?

Customizing news templates

Time for action—creating a new summary template

What just happened?

Adding custom fields to the module News

Time for action—adding custom fields

What just happened?

Using the news title as the page title

Using the search function with the module Search

Time for action—adding a search form

What just happened?

Browsing files with File Manager

Using Image Manager

Time for action—using the image editor

What just happened?

Using images in template and content

Using Menu Manager in content

Time for action—creating a sitemap

What just happened?

Printing pages

Time for action—adding a print link

What just happened?

Adding media type to stylesheets

Generating a PDF version of the page

Adding more modules to your website

Using the Module Manager

Installing additional modules

Time for action—module installation

What just happened?

Installing modules with XML file

Available upgrades

How to find the best CMS Made Simple module for your purpose

Uninstalling and removing modules

Pop quiz—using core modules

Have a go hero—applying customization to the core modules

Summary

6. Users and Permissions

Understanding users and their roles

Time for action—creating a new user

What just happened?

Time for action—assigning a user to a group

What just happened?

Content permissions

Time for action—creating an editor account

What just happened?

Additional editors

Creating new pages

Time for action—adding page permissions

What just happened?

Designer permissions

Time for action—creating a test area for the designer

What just happened?

Viewing the admin log

Archiving changes and restoring them

Time for action—restoring changes made by an editor

What just happened?

Overview of all default permissions

Module permissions

User notifications

Pop quiz—users and permissions

Have a go hero—users and permissions

Summary

7. Using Third-party Modules

Creating a photo gallery

Time for action—creating the first gallery

What just happened?

Adding albums to a gallery

Using the gallery on other pages

Time for action—adding random images to the template

What just happened?

Creating your own gallery template

Adding forms with the module Form Builder

Time for action—adding a contact form to the website

What just happened?

Customizing the contact form

Adding new fields to the forms

Adding salutation as a radio button group

Adding department as a pulldown field

Adding multiple choice selection with the checkbox group

Adding a Captcha to the forms

Sending out newsletters

Time for action—sending mails to registered customers

What just happened?

Displaying videos

Adding your own player

Pop quiz—using third-party modules

Have a go hero—installing other modules

Summary

8. Creating Your Own Functionality

Creating a product catalog

Creating a new catalog-like module

Step 1: Basic information about the module

Step 2: Creating levels

Creating the first level (categories)

Creating the second level (products)

Step 3: Finishing creation and module installation

Configuring the new Products Catalogue module

Creating the product list template

Time for action—creating a new list template

What just happened?

Implementing service desk functionality

Managing visitors' logins

Time for action—creating the first user account

What just happened?

Useful settings for module FrontEndUsers

Templates for the FrontEndUsers module

Creating protected pages

Time for action—protecting the service desk

What just happened?

Creating user area for support requests

Adding answer fields to the tickets

Time for action—creating new fields

What just happened?

Templates for ticket list and ticket detail view

Time for action—customizing list of tickets

What just happened?

Enabling dialog within tickets

Pop quiz—creating your own functionality

Have a go hero—creating your own functionality

Summary

9. E-commerce Workshop

Module Products

Time for action—adding the first product

What just happened?

Creating custom fields

Define your own fields

Creating a product hierarchy

Customizing product templates

Creating detail view for product

Module Cart

Time for action—connecting products and cart

What just happened?

Module Orders

Time for action—adding the checkout step

What just happened?

Integrating the login screen

Integrating customer registration

Module Paypal Gateway

Time for action—creating test accounts

What just happened?

Configuring PayPal's seller account

Payment Receiving Preferences

Instant Payment Notification

Website Payment Preferences

Language encoding

Optional modules for the e-commerce suite

Pop quiz—e-commerce workshop

Summary

10. Advanced Use of CMS Made Simple

Localization and translation

Configuring dates

Making multilingual websites

Editing language entries

The hierarchy solution

Adding flags as the language menu

Separate news articles by language

CMS Made Simple translation center

Translating modules in your installation

Time for action—custom translation of the module

What just happened?

Additional content and controls for editors

Additional content blocks

Time for action—adding a content block for subtitles

What just happened?

Extra page attribute

Time for action—using extra page attributes

What just happened?

Search engine optimization (SEO)

Title of your website

Meta tags

Meta tag keywords

Using SEO markup in templates

Using SEO markup in pages

Using keywords in page alias and image files

Search engine friendly URLs

Time for action—turning on search engine friendly URLs

What just happened?

Avoiding duplicate content

Consequently use domain with www or without www

Avoid publishing of print versions of your pages

Use tag for canonical URLs

Creating XML sitemaps for search engines

Visitor statistics

User-defined tags

How to make a user-defined tag

Time for action—creating your own user-defined tag

What just happened?

Parameters for tags

How to get the page information in UDT

Understanding events

Time for action—sending mails after page update

What just happened?

Integrating jQuery in navigation

Time for action—integrating jQuery in navigation

What just happened?

Pop quiz—advanced use of CMS Made Simple

Have a go hero—make search engine optimization

Summary

11. Administration and Troubleshooting

Getting system information

Backing up your website

Backing up website files

Time for action—creating a backup with the module

What just happened?

Backing up database

Time for action—creating a database backup

What just happened?

Manual backup

Backing up database with phpMyAdmin

Time for action—creating a backup with phpMyAdmin

What just happened?

Move CMS Made Simple to another web hosting

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Step 4

Step 5

Upgrading CMS Made Simple

Optimizing (performance tuning)

Compression

Persistent connections

CSS in global settings and static CSS

How to secure your installation

System verification

Usernames and passwords

Hiding admin directory

File permissions

CMS Made Simple and server version

Troubleshooting

CMS Made Simple Wiki

Help for modules

Built-in help

What does this do?

How do I use it?

Parameters

Forge (bugs and feature request)

How to get a quick answer in the forum

Using search

Finding the right board

Topic subject

Provide as much information as possible

Describe the problem step-by-step

Help others if you have been helped

Commercial support

Support contracts

Software development

What about larger projects?

Is the development team a corporation or company?

How do I contact you?

Pop quiz—administration and troubleshooting

Have a go hero—configure backup and stay up-to-date

Summary

A. Pop quiz Answers

Chapter 3

Creating Pages and Navigation

Chapter 4

Design and Layout

Chapter 5

Using Core Modules

Chapter 6

Users and Permissions

Chapter 7

Using Third-party Modules

Chapter 8

Creating Your Own Functionality

Chapter 9

E-commerce Workshop

Chapter 10

Advanced Use of CMS Made Simple

Chapter 11

Administration and Troubleshooting

Index