The Basics

So how is a web-site created with CMS Made Simple? There are a couple of terms that are central to understanding this.

You first need to have templates, which is the HTML code for your pages. This is styled with CSS in one or more style sheets that are attached to each template. You then create pages that contain your websites content using one of these templates.

That doesn't sound too hard, does it? Basically you don't need to know any HTML or CSS to get a site up with CMSMS. But if you want to customize it to your liking, consider learning some HTML and CSS.

As is common in most Content Management Systems, CMS Made Simple keeps all it's data (page contents, templates, CSS, user preferences, etc) in a database. By default, and if correctly configured, CMSMS caches each request in physical files on the server, with very few exceptions, so that the site´s performance is the same as that of a static built website, but with all the benefits of a CMS, and particularly the ease of CMSMS.

In the menu to the left you can read more about this, as well as ore advanced features like navegation and menus, additional extensions for adding many kinds of functionality to your site and the using Event Manager for managing work flow.

   Typical Workflow With CMS Made Simple™

These are the basic steps when creating a website with CMSMS:

   1- Plan

Determine what pages you want (structure) and how you want these pages to look (design).

   2- Create Templates

Create one or several template(s) that determine the layout of your pages.

   3- Style the Templates

Attach one or more stylesheets to each template and style the layout and content with CSS.

   4- Create Pages

Then you create pages, add content to them and select what template to use for each page.

When a user navigates to your site the page is created from the template, adding the content where the placeholder(s) are in the template.