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CMS Made Simple 1.6.6
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Rating: 4.1/5 (4619 votes cast) click stars to cast vote

Category: CMS / Portals
Stable Release: 1.6.6
Year Project Started: 2004
Listing Last Updated: October 18 2009 10:16 am
Native Language: English
Open Source License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Admin Username: admin
Admin Password: demo123
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CMS Made Simple Description:
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CMS Made Simple is an open source (GPL) package, built using PHP that provides website developers with a simple, easy to use utility to allow building small-ish (dozens to hundreds of pages), semi-static websites. Typically our tool is used for corporate websites, or the website promoting a team or organization, etc. This is where we shine. There are other content management packages that specialize in building portals, or blogs, or article based content, etc. CMS Made Simple can do much of this, but it is not our area of focus.

The Core package provides the ability to manage news articles, search functionality a contact form, a WYSIWYG editor (for your customers or editors) and numerous other built in functions. Additionally, there are hundreds of third party add-on tools that are quickly and easily installable to allow building websites with many different capabilities.

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STanly said "This is real cms! I am working with cms made simple is 2 years. I like cms made simple"
posted by: Stanly October 21 2009 04:16 pm

You moron
posted by: mrperfect February 4 2010 11:29 am
Don't bother. It is anything but simple. If you have used other CMS, then this will be completely counterintuitive. Common tasks that should be simple end up taking forever.
posted by: Tedomatic January 29 2010 06:22 pm
I have tried multiple CMS's recently and I was really disappointed not to find a single one that would be fast (=lightweight), simple and would do the most basic stuff (=static pages, newsflashes, 2-level horizontal menu aso.). But then I found CMSMS and realized that I found the one. Even though it's really simple to customize, it stuits perfectly even for my customers to use it on their own. Great work, guys!
posted by: AN January 28 2010 08:04 pm
So.. like.. wheres that simple part comes up with this cms??
Theres absolutely nothing simple in this cms, and i mean absolutely nothing! Periot!

Comparing this to user friendy wordpress is hilarious..
posted by: Wando January 27 2010 05:10 pm
As others I have tried different CMS and stuck with CMSMS. Installation and setup is pretty easy and straight forward. There are quite a lot of modules and plugins available which are relatively easy to add. Ready to be used templates are available as well but a basic understanding of HTML, CSS and other techniques are required if you want tweak a template or add some special features to it. I believe this is a valid statement for almost all CMS around.
Getting a new look and feel isn't so easy as for example with Wordpress but if you don't like to make your hands dirty us Wordpress.
posted by: liebesiech January 12 2010 07:21 am
My ISP is running on IIS 6.0, windows NT Server. Templates will work in IE 7 but not in IE8 or Mozilla since the css files are not being read or understoord anymore. Shame I had to try other cms but hopefully tis will be fixed soon
posted by: Try another Browser January 11 2010 06:35 pm
Flat out.. if you’re serious about web development, if you need to pass sites off to clients to edit, this is the smartest choice.. I handle tons of sites and after trying Drupal, WordPress, jumola, typo, mod x and a few more and getting pissed off clients I found CMSMS, I will not go back to any others. Sure they are prettier for now… but power and control for me out weighs pretty… plus you just need to make a template to handle the “pretty issue”. 2.0 will fix that as well.
For those that find the forum as an issue, I am in there alot, just to help others and there are many like me that want to help.
As the community gets bigger, the better cmsms gets. More and more modules are being developed every day. I know I’ve got a few out.
Overall I’d say if you know how to write html and css you should have no trouble with the basics and you can get the how to book too if you get stuck and don't want to go to the forum. Most complaints on things like speed and what not can be solved with good coding practices.

The future is bright for CMSMS

Cheers -J
posted by: jeremyBass January 8 2010 12:51 am
As a drupal user and developer I am used to complex CMS's but CMS made simple is NOT simple.

For example:
In wordpress, to find and use a theme, you search for it, download it, and activate it, using 3 links.

Here are the CMS made simple instructions:

These themes are uploaded here are contributed by independant third parties as a free service. The CMS Made Simple project make no guarantees that the themes available here are functional, tested, valid or compatible with your system. You are encouraged to read the information found in any help files for each theme before attempting the installation. (xml files may not contain help files.)
XML themes

In site admin go to Layout » Theme Manager second tab 'Import', Browse to find .xml file on your comp. dbl. click it, should now be showing in the box, click Import, it will take you back to first tab.

Now go to Layout » Templates under 'Active' you see a red X click that to activate the theme/template, now you can use it...
Zipped themes

Some of these templates come zipped, so you need to take all the images and put them in a folder in uploads/images/, or the file may have a read me which will tell you where to put them, if not when you look at the CSS you will see the path it looks for...

Then open the template file with an editor like notepad, not word pad or word they may add formatting I use the free PSPad editor...

Then copy/paste it into a new template in the admin Layout » Templates at the bottom click Add New Template name it and paste the code in Content: edit box, erasing any thing in it first, click Submit...

Open the CSS file copy/paste into new CSS, Layout » Stylesheets, Add a Stylesheet, name it and paste the code in Content: edit box, erasing any thing in it first, click Submit...

If it came with a .mm file rename it to have .txt then open it in notepad, copy it, then in admin go to Layout » Menu Manager and Add Template name it and paste the code in Content: edit box, click Submit...

You may need to adjust the Template to reflect the name you gave the Menu Template...

Then go back to Layout » Templates and across from the new template right side click the little orange CSS icon you will be at Layout » Templates » Current Associations at the bottom is a drop down for 'Add a Stylesheet' find your new stylesheet click it and it should show in the drop down window, click Add a Stylesheet and it should show in the upper part...

Now it should work...
posted by: January 7 2010 06:36 pm
Hi
Super CMS and very easy to create a web site
I liked it no problems
I have 7 web site run with CMS MS
very simple themeplate system not like otheres Joo... or Dru.. & so on
I create every site in a day

posted by: Spiriralph December 31 2009 01:58 am
A little complex to understand. I like the Minicrud, http://www.minicrud.com/demo/cms/
posted by: Anderson December 22 2009 10:21 am
Does not support php 5.3!
posted by: cmsfan December 21 2009 12:37 pm
What can I say, it's a GREAT cms.
posted by: John December 17 2009 06:18 am
Had a look here. Looks promising. Will give it a try!
posted by: Ulf December 3 2009 12:43 pm
I use cmsmademsimple. It's a very good cms
posted by: Leee November 18 2009 12:27 pm
I like this site! It is so simple! ish =))
posted by: Steaven November 8 2009 02:10 am
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