CMS Made Simple Templates
Last updated on August 10, 2009 at 09:05 pmThese 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 HTML knowledge
- all required images and style sheets
- built-in modules: search, news, top and sidebar navigation
- built-in tag: recently updated articles
- global content block for your copyright notice
- SEO-Coding: page title, headings for page title, footer links built from navigation, link tags to eliminate double content and previous/next navigation
- Formatting for up to 2 levels in sidebar navigation
Explore README to discover how to import these CMS templates into your website. To customize templates you need basic HTML / CSS knowledge and understand smarty tags.
Unbound
This CMS template originates from styleshout.com and is used on this website. Templates from Styleshout are very professional and include all conventional format styles for tables, forms, lists and inline elements. Therefore they are easy to use and customize. By replacing header image you get easily your individual look-and-feel, so that your page differs from standard template. Bonus! You can customize sub heading for each page. Use the "Extra Page Attribute 1:" in tab "Options!"
Color Paper
This CMS template is converted from blog template that originates from FTL Wordpress Themes. Do not be afraid of the word "Wordpress", the template here is fully adapted for CMS Made Simple. Only design and structure is taken from the original, by previewing the template you can see that all standard features, such as search, news or page navigation are fully integrated.
Jet30
This template is created by Templateworld.com. The website provides very good looking and free WEB 2.0 templates. Unfortunately they are not easy to customize since a lot of formating elements do not suit into the dynamic websites and there is a pain to convert them to the cms templates. Bonus! You can customize up to 2 lines in the heading for each page. Use the "Intro" field and "Extra Page Attribute 1:" in tab "Options!"
New York Magazine
The template is originated from Studio7designs.com. The main menu in the preview is not shown fully, it is due to the long page titles in the example content for CMS Made Simple. If you shorten the page title to one or 2 words, you will gain enough place to display more items in this CMS template. Bonus! Assign different page pictures to the content.
WatchThis!
The template is designed by solucija.com. You will find more free professional templates on their website that can be easily converted to CMS templates. Their templates are more suitable for business websites than for personal pages, the designs are clear and serious and can be used without limitation for commercial projects as well. Bonus! Replace the text above the content in the "Intro field" with WYISWYG editor!
Salt & Soap
This CMS template is taken from freewebsitetemplates.com. It has to be modified heavily for CMS Made Simple since the origin does not dynamically expand in the height. It is a great disvantage of the templates from this resource. TIP: look at the origin template and compare the page titles. The original template uses images to display titles on the page. You can make it the same way if you use the TruetypeText module of CMS Made Simple to display page titles in any font you like. It is more beautiful but not very SEO friendly.
Flavour
One of the first CMS templates that have been adopted for CMS Made Simple. The origin is taken from freecsstemplates.org. All templates there are free but they look semi-professional for my taste. Nevertheless the templates are all light-weighted, table-less and contain no or very little images. They are all easy to convert to CMS templates. 
My name is Sofia Hauschildt and I’am a tutor for web mastering and web development, consultant and programmer. 2000 I had graduated in Computer Science and actually by chance started to instruct...
mica
August 10, 2009 at 10:09 am
Hello
I am working on my web site (http://www.findeo.fr). I love your templates. Thanks for it. But I prefer the template of your site www.icms.info. Is it possible to have the same please or similar please?
Sofia
August 10, 2009 at 05:44 pm
The template of this website is based on Unbound template (please see the template section). Though it has been modified, you can detect similarities.
Hidayet Ok
August 14, 2009 at 02:22 am
Thanks for this great templates.
Paul
September 3, 2009 at 08:30 am
Nice. I'm a big CMSMS fan so it's really nice seeing other people's advocate sites! I really like the way you've passed 'tpl' variable to each of the template links too. And it persists. Cool!
NaN
September 18, 2009 at 06:34 pm
Very nice templates and documentation.
Thanks for this.
diego ITA
November 16, 2009 at 09:59 pm
thanks for ypur great great and useful informations about cmsms.
Hans
December 2, 2009 at 12:53 am
Thanks very much for a very clear description combining the various aspects when are needed to know when starting a web site.
Alexander
February 2, 2010 at 07:27 pm
I like this CMS and use templates in my site. Thank you for you job.
Patric Ahlqvist
February 25, 2010 at 05:07 pm
Hi again, Sofia...
I'm so inspired to port free designs to CMS ms. Thank you for making it easy. Next step is to make my own, so I can contribute some... There isn't to many free CMS ms templates up, i think...
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