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'Hello World' web page

If you are new to developing websites with the CMS, follow this quick and simple guide.

Hello World

  • Create a new blank website.
  • Click 'templates'
  • Click 'New page template'
  • Paste in the following code: 

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello World</h1>
</body>
</html>

  • Click 'Editor'
  • Add a page
  • Click 'Publish'
  • Click the link next to the logout button to open the publsihed site in a new window.
  • Job done. You can now create 'hard-wired' page templates using the CMS.

Add a menu

The CMS will create menus for you.

  • Click 'New navigation template'
  • Add the following code:

Start:

<div id="menu">

Current page:

<div>
<a style="color:red" href="<pagelink>" title="<hover>"><pagename></a>
</div>

Other pages:

<div>
<a style="color:black" href="<pagelink>" title="<hover>"><pagename></a>
</div>

End:

</div>

  • Now add this code to place the menu after the H1 tag in the body of your page template:

<si5 type=nav>