Create website with CMS Made Simple

Checksum error: How to install modules

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0200

Sometimes when you try to install new module or upgrade existing one in the admin console, you get an error message:

Checksum error. This probably indicates a corrupt file, either when it was uploaded to the repository, or a problem in transit down to your machine.

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Nice design - bad accessibility

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0200

This is a nice website at first glance. I like this beautiful and professional design, clear structure and awesome images. However, there are critical issues with accessibility of the website.

Test: Disable images

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Beautiful shop with some SEO issues

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0200

A beautiful jewelry shop is a pure CMS Made Simple solution and have been created from Calguy's E-commerce suite of modules. Browse through the site to see how well every module has been integrated.

There some SEO issues with...

TouchInlineEdit - Editing im Frontend

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0200

When CMS Made Simple is compared to its competitors the one of "disadvantages" often pointed to is the strict separation between admin backend and front end. A lot of other CMS allow editing on the page and, indeed, it saves time. Especially, if your website grows and it becomes difficult to...

Showtime. Flash or JQuery for everyone

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0200

If you are a bit tired of Light box effect and tons of galleries that are created with this famous effect or with one its numerous variations, you have to try the new module Showtime. Displaying a gallery...

Featured modules

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0200

There are over 700 modules for CMS Made Simple. Some of them were created in the early years and have been integrated into the core installation. Another have been abandoned by their developers and wait for revivals. There are also modules that have been planned, but never released. It is not...

CMS Made Simple Templates from icms.info

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0200

These free templates have been ported to CMS Made Simple. You do not need any HTML knowledge to use this tempaltes. All templates include:

template builder (!) to simple hide template elements on every page without...

CMS Made Simple Beginner's Guide

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0200

How to backup your website

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Backup is making copies of your files AND database. You need backup in case of disaster if something goes wrong on your web hosting. The data can be lost due to hosting issues or caused by webmaster mistakes. Therefore it is important to have backup files to be able to restore your...

Comments on every page

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Do you like blog comment feature? You do not need a blog to have the same functionality on each CMS Made Simple page and even integrated in your News or Photo Gallery. CMS Made Simple includes simple but powerful module – Comments.

Features of the module Comments

Adds...

Event Calendar

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200

If you need calendar for your website to post events scheduled for your website, company or club, you can use the module Calendar.

Features of module Calendar

Create categories of events
Assign one event to multiple categories
Display month view or...

Guestbook on the website

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Would you like to have a guestbook on your band website or personal homepage? You can allow your visitors to write into the guestbook and even make list of customers' compliments from the module if you like.

Features of module Guestbook

Filter and replace "bad" words...

Contact form for the website

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Normally you add contact information on your website. You can use your e-mail (bad idea because of spam). Or you add a contact form where the visitors can fill some fields and submit it. An e-mail is generated from the information entered into the form and sent to the e-mail address you have...

Photo gallery

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Add a sophisticated photo gallery on your website with module Album. Upload image files, select between different built-in templates and your gallery is ready to use.

Features of module Photo Albums

Create and edit albums
Create and edit album categories

Member registration for your website

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200

This article explains how you can allow visitors of your website register themselves, so that you do not need to add users manually to your website in the admin panel of FrontEndUsers. There is another module that you need for this part called...

Create protected pages

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Protected pages can be viewed only by registered members and as you have already installed membership management module you can proceed with creating protected pages.

In some modules, like Forum Made Simple the protection is built in...

Global content blocks

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Beside the ordinary page content you can also use a global content blocks in CMS Made Simple. Global content is very useful feature for repeated parts of your content. Imagine you add Google ads in your pages. You know that you have to add Google code in each page again and again. What...

Image Manager

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Sure you would like to add images to your website. Whether they are placed in the content of pages or used in templates or gallery, they have to be uploaded to the web space first.

You should optimize your images before displaying them on the website. NEVER add images that are larger...

Layout Control

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Gala Purity theme has a built-in template control for easy displaying different parts of the website. You can switch on and off up to 7 parts of the template.

Standard features

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0200

If you use good website tool you do not need to reinvent the wheel. Consequently add news articles or allow to search through the content of your website, add print functionality as plain text or into PDF or upload and organize your images. All these features are already built in and you just...

Understanding Templates

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0200

CMS Made Simple uses various templates to display the content of your website. To understand templates, think of them as of the pre-defined layouts. Every time you create a new page you choose template to define how this page has to look like.

You can easily imagine a template as a...

How to upload website files

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0200

With upload of website files you simply transfer all the required files to run CMS Made Simple to your hosting.

Get the files you need to upload. Go to cmsmadesimple.org. In the top menu...

Beginning with CMS Made Simple

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Why to choose CMS Made Simple to create websites? There are 4 reasons for it:

It's free for personal and commercial use
It's easy to learn and understand
It's flexible in design and has a lot of additional features
It's popular and has a large...

How to choose tool to create website

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0200

What tool should you use to create websites? It depends on the kind of your website and how the content of your web page is created. If you right the content yourself then you need content management system (CMS) or blogging tool like Wordpress. If the content of your website is created...

Basic knowledge to create website

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0200

How easy it is to make an own website and what knowledge do you need? Well, if you read to this page I assume that you go on with computer and Internet. This is a good start.

Basic computer knowledge is required. At least you have to be able to distinguish between...

How to choose web hosting provider

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0200

There are thousands of hosting companies over the world, but you need to choose only one web hosting you can trust. The success or failure of the website has direct dependency on the quality of the web hosting provider.

You have to find one that is affordable, reliable, suits...

How to choose the proper website domain

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Website domain is the address of the website. The choice of the website domain is very important step and will influence the website during its whole life. It affects your self-presentation, the presentation of the company and search engine optimization as well. Changing the domain name...

Plan your own website

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Let's see how we can plan website. Yes, we start to plan first still not making anything "material". You have to spend time on this step because in fact you will save your time afterwards avoiding time-consuming rebuilding, recreating or reorganizing of your website.

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Website Ideas and Purposes

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Amazing but a lot of websites are started without any idea. If it is a personal website, the only idea was "Writing stuff about me", for commercial website "making money online in any way". Do not start this way. Before making any steps first find out the right subject for your website....

Create website with best CMS?

Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0200

First of all, there is no the best one for all needs and requirements. Choosing the best CMS suitable for your project can be a long process.

Consider some criteria for CMS:

costs
simplicity
flexibility
support

Making some SEO with CMS Made Simple?

Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Let's start from the very beginning. Go to admin admin panel and open Layout → Templates. It is the main template where you start to optimize your website.

Title tag

The most important SEO aspect is the title tag. It must be different on every page. If...

Member login for your website

Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 +0200

With member management you can allow visitors of your website to see the contents only available for registered users.

Website members are not the same as admin users of your website!

In the admin panel you will find the section Users. These are only webmasters,...

Add RSS Feed to your website

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0200

This addon creates automatically RSS Feed from different parts of your website. All you need is just install module CGFeedMaker and add some lines to the global settings resp. your content pages. You can subscribe to

How to upgrade CMS Made Simple?

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0200

CMS Made Simple community improves the application constantly therefore new versions are released regularly. If the new version is released you should see in the admin panel below the main menu a message "You have 1 unhandled notification". The message appears only once a day!...

How to check hosting for CMS Made Simple?

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0200

As already stated in Preparation to setup, CMS Made Simple does not require any exotic features to run stable and smooth.

How to figure out whether your hosting meets all requirements? It's easy enough. Just download this small

Practice Tips and HowTo's

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0200

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. In this section I am going to submit the most frequent HowTo articles I have written for my...

Additional plugins for the website

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0200

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 content pages. Some plugins are already installed with CMS Made Simple and are explained in...

Create Google Sitemap

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0200

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 website.

In general, there are two types of site maps. The first type of site map is a HTML...

Protect forms with captcha

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0200

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 by humans and not by spam bots. See an example for captcha picture:

{captcha}

If...

Tags - small helpers

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0200

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 information from the database.

Tags can be found in the admin panel. Go...

Using CMS Menu in Content

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0200

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” check box in Option tab of the page.

Sidebar navigation displays all children of...

Mails from CMS with CMSMailer

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0200

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 forget your administrator password. This module is also used by any other CMS Made Simple...

Search content on the website

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0200

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 of your website can put in a word or two and a search result for matching pages is...

Add news on the website

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0200

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 your time on implementing news if you do not know right now where you will get the news articles...

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