CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide, a new book from Packt, is a tutorial for readers intending to equip them to build a fully functional website with a professional touch and advanced features. The book is written by Sofia Hauschildt, a tutor for web mastering and web development. This book provides vast knowledge about how webmasters can design and implement their high quality websites using CMS Made Simple.

CMS Made Simple is an Open Source Content Management System that permits designing and development of websites at a faster rate without investing in hours of coding procedures. By being an easy and powerful application CMS Made Simple also enables its users to obtain practical solutions in their daily work.

This guide is a hands-on book based on a step by step case study to build a complete professional website right from CMS installation to the finished website. The book takes the readers through clear instructions and detailed screenshots in a chapter by chapter manner, thereby helping to build a website with rich functionality.

Web designers will learn how to integrate an e-commerce shop with a PayPal checkout, enrich the website with features like a photo gallery as well as implement YouTube videos into templates or pages thus helping users create engaging, effective, and easy-to-use CMS websites for businesses, clubs, or organizations. They will also learn to build print-friendly PDF versions of their website, develop pages which are only accessible to its members through login/sign-in functionalities.

This book is ideal for beginners as well as webmasters, designers and editors who are looking to create a professional and powerful website using CMS Made Simple. The book aims at all aspects of web publishing and only basic knowledge of HTML and CSS is essential. The book is out now and is available from Packt. For more information, please visit www.packtpub.com/cms-made-simple-1-6-beginners-guide/book