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CMS Made Simple 1.9 Beginner?s Guide: LITE Edition
CMS Made Simple 1.9 Beginner?s Guide: LITE Edition
CMS Made Simple 1.9 Beginner?s Guide: LITE Edition
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This is a practical, hands-on book based around a case study website, which you will set up in this easy-to-understand introduction to using CMS Made Simple. The chapters provide clear instructions and detailed screenshots, so you can see exactly what to do at each step of the build. This book is perfect for newcomers as well as webmasters who are looking for an introduction to building powerful and professional websites with a content management system. The workshop covers all aspects of web publishing and is aimed for web designers, web developers, editors, and web managers.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 19, 2011
ISBN9781849516419
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

    Copyright © 2011 Packt Publishing

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    First published: April 2011

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    Credits

    Author

    Sofia Hauschildt

    Reviewers

    Jeremy Bass

    Yury V. Zaytsev

    Acquisition Editor

    Sarah Cullington

    Technical Editors

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    Indexer

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    Production Coordinator

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    Cover Work

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    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

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