Need to add left menu - help please

[hostclam]

Hi:

Brand new to CMS Made Simple, but it looks very interesting.

I am using the CSS top menu with 2 columns. I see that the left column is blank. I need to put a menu there. I go to menu manager and click on add new, it looks like the menu has to be added manually (CSS and the like). Since this CMS is supposed to be the esiest, I assume there is a way to add menus without CSS knowledge, correct?

Thank you

[calguy1000]

No, I'm sorry to say, CMS Made Simple is not designed to replace frontpage.  CMS Made simple is designed to be simple for experienced professional HTML/CSS developers to build sites with.  Our menu and module infrastructure is very powerful, and very flexible, and once you know what your doing you can build powerful semi-static websites very simply, and very quickly.

But it's not meant for people that don't have experience in professional website design or development, people that don't know CSS, or XHTML, or the problems with maintaining an online application (permissions, memory limits, etc, etc).

[Pierre M.]

Hello,

simple != easy.

Please read the menu manager documentation, please read the sample content, please experiment with various {menu...} tags in your templates. Once you catch how simple it is, you can easyly make the menus you want. Powerfull, indeed.

Pierre M.

[kermit]

the default CSSMenu top + 2 columns template contains the following code for the sidebar.....


      {* Start Sidebar *}
     
        {content block='Sidebar'}
     
      {* End Sidebar *}



you can change or add whatever you want... the default (the green line in the middle) is a simple second content block; which you'd see if you edit a page that is set to that template. if you don't plan on using that extra content block you can remove it from the template (or use the 1 column version instead).

[c1000mg]

Hello everyone!!!

I'm not a developer (but I always wanted to be one), but because I was bad as a kid I just joined an academy of design in my country and became a "Graphic Designer", now I'm in Canada marry with a kid and have no much time to go back to school...

and I just installed CMSMS and I wanted to THANK YOU!!! it is very simple to use and customize... I'm taking a course online for CSS at lyndas.com and another for PHP & MySQL that are very basic and I already achieve more than what I was capable to do, thanks to CMSMS, and I'm a real beginner, I can even write/read English that well (it is my second language).

Thank you !!!

oh BTW I'm working in my Horiz Menu at this moment, and I just copy the tpl files on Menu Manager and the CSS and changed the names to be able to have always the original and been changing my own and when I make a mistake I go back to the templates, it is great and is all made for you... I'm designing a web site for the company I work for and I'm testing my own server...

I still use Dreamweaver to code or Bluefish in my server because they help you in the syntax!!! yes I'm lazy!!! TY