A New Concept In Content Management
Content goes into the database and gets sucked into your pages dynamically!
Born of a need to remotely maintain our own web sites, MiniCMS is the easiest to set up and use of any we’ve seen. To add dimension to your site, simply add content to your datbase, and like magic, the site grows. Only two content page templates are required: "home.php" for your flashy front entrance, and "page" for content display. MySite comes with examples of each of these pages, along with tips for customizing them or creating your own. You can try out MiniCMS here!
To change the look and feel of the site, log in and add content or edit the stylesheets, one for each of the two templates mentioned in the previous paragraph. Further customization may require a deeper knowledge XHTML, PHP and MySQL programming.
Getting started: Log in
To create or edit content, first log in as "Site.Admin" with password "password". Then as the site admin you can add other authors to the database using the "Authors" link in the upper-right menubar. Do so now. Click the pencil next to the site admin author and change the site admin’s password to somethin more secure than just "password", and right it down somewhere safe. Create a new author using your name in the format "Firstname.Lastname" and give yourself an easy-to-remember password. Now log out (quit your browser application) and log in as "you" to add content.
Now visit the other pages on this example site using the main navigation links "About", "Contact" and so on to see other uses of rules in the stylesheets.
