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Someone asked me for the calendar template that we used for Sun Country on the Murray so I thought I would post it here. Download the CGCalendar template here CGCalendar is a calendar module for CMSMS. To get it to work, copy the contents of “Calendar Display Template.txt” into the “Calendar Templates” template. And add [...]

A quick checklist on how to convert a static site to a CMS Made Simple powered site: Install CMSMS (instructions here) Add in the template and enter all the tags Add in the stylesheets Link the stylesheet to the template Add the pages Create the menu template Done!

I have a site where I’m using the products module. The company I’m doing it for runs specials every now and then, and wants them to show up as a page on the site. So what I did was create a category “specials”, and when a product is in that, it shows up on the [...]

So I’m working on a project where people that are completely computer illiterate will be using a WYSIWYG box. I didn’t want them pasting from word and it keeping all the messy html from word. I found this config to work very well. tinyMCE.init({ mode : “textareas”, theme : “advanced”, plugins : “paste”, editor_selector : [...]

In one of the sites I’m working on, there is a large featured image that is different for each product page, but is the same for the rest of the pages on the site. Heres how I did it. 1. In each page where you need a different featured image, go to the options tab, [...]

One of the problems of CMSMS is that there are a hell of a lot of modules, but it’s hard to know which ones are the best without trying them out first. Here are my recommendations on the best modules. Photo Gallery – Gallery Album Product catalog – Products – Great module. One of the [...]

If you don’t use CMSMS, skip this post. In html, if you want to do a back to top link, you can just do <a href=”#top”>Back to top</a>, and it will take you to the top of the page no problems. Pretty simple. But in CMSMS, if you do that, for one reason or another [...]

Quick note about this post – if you don’t use CMSMS, skip it =) CMSMS is pretty good for SEO, but one of the things that does bug me is that by default, it doesn’t set titles for pages generated by modules. For example, on a news page, you want the title of the page [...]