Workflow

These are the basic steps when creating a website with CMS Made Simple:

  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.


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