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New to CMSMS and thus far impressed with the ease of install etc..

have a couple of simple asp.net sites up with
index.asp calling
header/menu/body and footer files.

I want to port these to CMSMS and am wondering what the best way of doing this is.
The way the asp site is done allow me have a single instances of my page components, allowing me to change the look/order/feel of these for the whole site in one place. I would like to maintain this approach and am wondering how to achieve it in CMSMS.

I have seen these user-defined tags and am wodering if I create one of these for the header/menu/body etc and then place these accordingly in the template body? Or do I need to copy the pages components as HTML into one template and add the {content} tag?

I suppose what I am really trying to do is create a template which look like my original site into which I can load the content.

Any help/pointer/samples would be great.

Your best bet is to make one template, paste everything in, and replace the content area with {content}.  If you want to be more flexible as far as everything not being in one jammed up place, you could take the menu (assuming it's a static menu) and put it into an html blob.  Then you're not messing with the whole look and feel to make one little change.

Of course, the optimal thing to do is use a dynamic menu (phplayers or the upcoming cssmenu) that just mirrors your content.

You could find some more information in this post:

http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... ml#msg9411