Updating Your Site Content
Congratulations! Your site design is nearly complete and it is now ready to be personalized with your original content. You will be using the CMS Made Simple (CMSMS) Content Management System to help you manage and update your site's content. This open source software is the easiest and most stable CMS we have found. To help you get started, we have created an entire series of tutorials to ease the learning curve.
After we've completed your website, we can install CMSMS on your web server so that you will always have full access to your website content. Using a CMS to manage your content gives you ultimate control over your site. All changes to your pages are updated in real time. You won't need any special software or programming skills because everything is done through your web browser. For all clients who choose Downtownhost as their web host, we will waive the installation fee and install your CMS for free.
If you feel comfortable using a word processor, you will find using CMSMS a breeze! Get started by launching the CMS login page and following the simple steps shown below.
- 1. Login to your control panel.
- 2. Click on the "Pages" link under "Content".
- 3. Click on a page link or icon to edit the page, as shown below.
- 4. You are now in the "Main" tab under "Edit Content". Insert or modify your text by typing it in or pasting it from a document. (Instructions for uploading,inserting and modifying images will be covered in the next few tutorials.)
- 5. Continue editing content for each content box on the page.
- 6. Preview the site by clicking the "Preview" tab. Save your changes or keep editing.
- 7. Use easy navigation buttons to view your site or log out of the Admin Console.
- 8. Your site has now been updated in real time.
The second tutorial in this series will show you how to upload images from your computer to the Image Manager. Once your images are in the Image Manager, you can edit them and insert them into your web pages.
