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Using EasyCMS

After you successfully installed EasyCMS on your server and set up the file attributes, you can start using it.

Before you can use the web-front end of EasyCMS to create the content and the page you need to:

1. Define your sitemap.
2. Change/create your template

The sitemap is defined by changing the navigation.xml file in the admin folder. EasyCMS only allows navigations to go down two levels.

Attention!

You can use any invalid characters like slashes, percent signs or colons in the navigation items. EasyCMS generates the html filenames from these, and will generate valid filenames. This also means, that "About Us/Info" will be the same filename as "about us info" !

The template is the template.html file in the admin folder. It is an HTML file with special comments in it, specifying which part of the HTML the script should use for generating the navigation. The template is the whole look and feel of the page. Each other page will be generated using this one as the source look and feel.

Once both these things are set up, you can start using the web-front end to add the content for each page and generate the pages.

This third step can be reused over and over again, the first two require re-generating each page.

As EasyCMS separates content from display you can give a page a completely new look by just changing the template and the stylesheet.

Attention!

When you depack the original zip here onto your server you will have this page editable with EasyCMS. Make sure to delete all files in the html and the data folder before you start your own page.