Sep 15, 2009General: CMS Made Simple 1.6.5 "Poya"

New version of CMS Made Simple is released. Again it's a bugfix release. It is recommended to upgrade your site(s) at your earliest convenience. Be careful, if you use trailing slash with mod_rewrite. All your forms are going to be broken after update if you do not modify your .htaccess file like described in official board.

Aug 23, 2009Addons: Backup your website!

If you work with CMS it is very important to backup your website. You can make it with 2 simple addons. Spending some minutes on creating daily backup can save you days and weeks in case of data loss or damage. Read how you can simple backup your website without any special administrator knowledge.

Aug 22, 2009Templates: CSS Template from scratch

In this workshop you can create your own CSS template from scratch. It is simple, but sophisticated 3 columns fluid layout. The resulting template is XHTML valid, includes SEO coding (content BEFORE navigation) and is easy to customize with your own colours. Start CSS template from the scratch!

Aug 19, 2009Addons: Comments - blog-like feature

Visitor comment feature can be added to every page, news item or picture in photo gallery . It is a very flexible module allowing you to add comments on any content page or module item of your CMS. There are numerous built-in solutions to protect your website from spam comments as well.

Aug 18, 2009General: CMS Made Simple 1.6.4 - Moindou

New version of CMS Made Simple is announced. This is a recommended update that fixes some seriuos issues that poped up since release 1.6. Please read official announcement for the list of changes. You are encouraged to upgrade your sites to CMSMS 1.6.4 as soon as possible, as official development team now supports only CMSMS 1.6.3 and 1.6.4. Read the article How to update CMS Made Simple as well.

Aug 4, 2009General: One minute of your time...

Please take a minute to give your voice for CMS Made Simple. As every year CMS Made Simple takes part in the best CMS contest. Last year CMS Made Simple shared the seconde place with Joomla. Lot of improvements have been done since last year. Please give your voice to say "Thank you!". It will take only one minute of your time.

Aug 4, 2009Templates: Template Builder renewed

For all templates the template builder known from Gala Purity template is now renewed. In each template the editor can hide or display different parts of the website with simple click. No special knowledge is needed to customize layout for each page individually.

Aug 3, 2009General: CMS Made Simple 1.6.3 - Touho

New version of CMS Made Simple is announced. This is a security release that fixes some security issues. Please read official announcement for the list of changes. You are stronly recommended to make this upgrade. Read the article How to update CMS Made Simple as well.

Jul 29, 2009General: CMS Made Simple 1.6.2 - Noumea

New version of CMS Made Simple is announced. This is again a bugfix release that means no new features are implemented, but some errors from 1.6.1 have been fixed. Please read official announcement for the list of changes. You do not need to make upgrade if you do not encounter issues described in the list. Read the article How to update CMS Made Simple as well.

Jul 23, 2009General: CMS Made Simple 1.6.1 - Canala

New version of CMS Made Simple is announced. This is a bugfix only release, means no new features are implemented, but some errors from 1.6 have been fixed. Please read official announcement for the list of changes and how to update CMS Made Simple as well.

Jul 19, 2009Video Podcast: How to port free template to CMS Made Simple?

There are a lot of free templates. No need to wait till someone make a template that you like. If you have some HTML and CSS knowledge you can port free templates to CMS Made Simple yourself. In this visual tutorial the whole process is shown in 10 minutes.

Jul 18, 2009Addons: Event calendar on the website

Display event calendar on your website as a month view or the list of events. On the start page you can show only upcoming events to display what's on and get visitors interested for your events. For advanced user: there is also an integration module to allow registered members on your website to add new events to the calendar.

Jul 18, 2009Showcase: New band website in show case

Not actually a band but acoustic guitarist and vocalist Richie Muir presents himself  with the CMS Made Simple website. Listen to his music with MP3 player (module FLV) integrated into CMS Made Simple, see YouTube videos built-in on the website and visit guestbook. This is another beautiful example for the website created with CMS Made Simple.

Jun 14, 2009General: Free Hosting for CMS Made Simple

Free hosting is something that does not belong to the professional way of building websites. But sometimes you would like to give a try to a new CMS or new subject of interest without any costs. Free hosting can be a start of new powerful project (although it would not perfom well eternally and you will have to upgrade to the paid plan as soon the project starts to grow).

May 22, 2009Addons: Forum for CMS Made Simple

CMS Made Simple has a simmple discussion board. The forum can be integrated with the module Forum Made Simple (writing workshop on how to setup it is in progress). See an example for Forum Made Simple. It is also a test area for you if you would like to play around.

Apr 19, 2009Video Podcast: Setup CMS Made Simple on local disk

New visual tutorial explains how to install CMS Made Simple on local disk. If you would like to setup CMS Made Simple on your PC to just test it, you can use WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server.

Please add your comments to the podcast if something does not work or goes wrong during the installation and also if you have managed to solve your problems. It will be surely appreciated.

Apr 11, 2009Addons: Add RSS feed to the website

With module CGFeedMaker you can create RSS feed for your website for different sections, like News, Albums. It is not difficult to create RSS feed for news articles since there is a sample channel already delivered with this module.

Apr 8, 2009General: CMS Made Simple Update 1.5.4

New version of CMS Made Simple is released: 1.5.4. The new version just fixes a couple of annoying bugs:

1. The logout / session issue in the admin panel should now be resolved permanently.
2. The problem with errors in preview on new installs because of some bad logic in the default templates has been fixed.

This is an option upgrade that means you do not have to make it if you do not experience the problems above. To update follow the article How to upgrade CMS Made Simple to new version?

Apr 4, 2009Templates: New CMS Made Simple templates

In the template section four new templates are added. The 3 "old" templates are being reworked to suit new version of CMS Made Simple.

Mar 28, 2009SEO: How to create Google Sitemap

New recommended addon: SiteMapMadeSimple. This module creates fully dynamically XML Sitemap for your website. You can add the link of this Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tool to make the indexing smoother, cleaner and faster.