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i am brand new to cms technology. i need to edit my site so i can then offer this service to my clients. i have a site: www.dcobbinah.co.uk i have installed the cmsmadesimple there. its resides at www.dcobbinah.co.uk/cms how then do i edit the pages of my site? does the cms work that way? if i design a site for a client they cannot have an address like www.yoursite.com/cms they will all wonder what the /cms is for. how do i edit a site that is not in the /cms directory? is there a way? i have seen the front page of the cms index.php and its a nice layout ie it doesnt have to use this 3 column layout with username and password and polls that are on most community/clan sites. i want my clients to be able to add text and pictures and pages to their site with a minimum of fuss.

i have looked at the cms site and cannot find a HOW TO regarding the edits to an existing site or a site outside the cms directory. any help in this area will be so appreciated

If I understand, what you wrote: you want to have cms used for multiple websites and no /cms path on them. Then you have to install cms on all sites - separately. And install cms in root, no in directory /cms. Than you have to design templates and css for site. Your clients will later user address mysite.com/admin to easily manage their content (pages, files, pictures,...). Make them user with subset of rights, so their interface will be much simplier than interface of user admin.

Some user handbook is here: http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/tiki-inde ... r+Handbook hope it'll help you.