Build your Website With CMSMS

Build your Website With CMSMS

CMS Made Simple simplifies management of online content with appropriate abstraction for different groups

Involved

Web CMS or content management

system is a software

that runs on web server to

help you create and manage websites.

CMSMS is an open source package built

using PHP that enables building websites

for small organizations. It makes building

of web pages simple with clear separation

between layout code and content code,

and there is clear abstraction for editors,

designers and administrator, making

their work simple. In this article, we

would show how easy it is to install and

develop a web site using CMSMS. We have

used a Windows XP machine to get a feel

of this software. We have used

'WampServer' for installation that can be

downloaded from 'www.sf.net'. This

package contains 'Apachi', 'PHP', and

'MySQL' required for CMSMS.

Download 'cmsmadesaimple-1.5.2-

full.tar' from the link given above and extract

it in 'c:\wamp\www'. Now create a

database. Go to 'localhost\phpmy-admin'

and click on 'Create' button under

'Create new database'( we named it cms).

Create a blank 'config.php' file in

'c:\wamp\www\cmsmadesimple' folder

which will act as configuration file. To

start installation of CMSMS, visit 'localhost/

cmsmadesimple/install' from

browser, select language and click on

'Submit' button. There are seven steps involved

in installation. Once finished, visit

'localhost/cmsmadesimple/admin' for

back end work while localhost/cmsmadesimple/'

is the actual website crated.

Modifying and managing content is very

simple. Simply visit 'localhost/cmsmadesimple/

admin' and login using user

name and password that were created

during installation. It is recommended to

delete the 'Install' folder from

'c:\wamp\www\cmsmadesimple' for security

of this Web application. All in all,

installation and usage of this package is

very simple, with modular design that enables

addition of more features if

required.