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Hi All,

Im having fun figuring out cmsms and think its excetionally useful but im having problems figuring out basic things.

I have managed to get my front page (indexpage) working and formating correctly with news items etc.
i just cannot figure out how to add more pages. the site i am working on is partly located on a test server here
http://www.space95.sc/rtg (i apologise for the time it takes to load, bandwidth is a problem where i live)

What i cant figure out is, i have copied my front page into cmsms as a template as well as my css, but how do i add other pages and make them look the way i want? further, how do i link to the pages? im trying to figure out how i can maintain the structure of my pages, my index page (template) is unique to that page as you can see, my hardware page for instance is laid out differently...

Does anyone have any spare time to give some direction on this? ive followed the video and guides but still cant get my head around it.......

any help is much appreciated

you don't copy the page's *content* into templates. templates (and their associated stylesheets) are just the layout and design of the page.  pages are added and edited from content->pages in the admin area.

you add special tags to the template so that cmsms knows what to insert where when the page is requested by a browser. such as {stylesheet} to add the template's stylesheet(s), {menu} to add a menu, {content} to insert the page's content, etc...

the barest of templates would look something like this:



{title}
{stylesheet}
{metadata}


{sitename}
{menu}
{title}
{content}



{title} is the page's title, defined when you create or edit a page.
{sitename} is the site's name as defined in the configuration
{menu} runs the menu manager module to generate a menu based upon the site's current site structure and content
{content} inserts the displayed page's content block.

check out the documentation wiki at
http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... /Templates

ok, thats a good start but im still a bit unsure.

take the structure of my firstpage and compare it to another page, the structure changes. for one thing, the sidebar on the left on the firstpage is on the right on suqsequent pages, how do i work with this? i can apply differnt templates to differnt pages on my site? if so i will have to make a new template for any page which has a different layout? the only thing which will remain constant then is the css page, while the pages will all be different...?

Yes, you can use a different template for each page.

Nullig