Basic example template
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Below a basic example HTML template. You can see the CMSMS tags between the structure of the regular HTML components.
{process_pagedata} {* Adds page specific metadata to the page *}
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <!-- Change "en" to your language -->
<head>
<title>{title} | {sitename}</title> <!-- Title of the page | Site name from Global Settings -->
{metadata} <!-- Adds Global Metadata to the page -->
{cms_stylesheet} <!-- Adds attached stylesheets to the page -->
</head>
<body>
<div id="pagewrapper">
<div id="header">
<h1>{sitename}</h1> <!-- Site name from Global Settings -->
</div>
<div id="menu">
{menu} <!-- Show all the menu buttons -->
</div>
<div id="breadcrumbs">
{cms_breadcrumbs} <!-- Show breadcrumbs pagelinks -->
</div>
<div id="content">
<h2>{title}</h2> <!-- Title of the page -->
{content} <!-- Page content -->
</div>
<div id="footer">
{global_content name='footer'} <!-- Extract all footer code to a global content block -->
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <!-- Change "en" to your language -->
<head>
<title>{title} | {sitename}</title> <!-- Title of the page | Site name from Global Settings -->
{metadata} <!-- Adds Global Metadata to the page -->
{cms_stylesheet} <!-- Adds attached stylesheets to the page -->
</head>
<body>
<div id="pagewrapper">
<div id="header">
<h1>{sitename}</h1> <!-- Site name from Global Settings -->
</div>
<div id="menu">
{menu} <!-- Show all the menu buttons -->
</div>
<div id="breadcrumbs">
{cms_breadcrumbs} <!-- Show breadcrumbs pagelinks -->
</div>
<div id="content">
<h2>{title}</h2> <!-- Title of the page -->
{content} <!-- Page content -->
</div>
<div id="footer">
{global_content name='footer'} <!-- Extract all footer code to a global content block -->
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Global Content Block called "footer"
<p>Copyright © {custom_copyright} <a href="http://www.cmsmadesimple.org" target="_blank">CMS Made Simple™</a></p>