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Posted: **Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:38 am**

Hi there,

I need a CMS but don't want to be tied to it for templates, ideally I'd like to insert your CMS code into the relevant parts of my own pages and just drive the data into it with ypur CMS Made Simple admin panel. My client only needs to be able to edit a small number of areas and theres nothing really dynamic in terms of duplicating that data accross the site - headlines and stuff. They do want podcasts in the future too.

How easy is it to use CMS Made Simple in this way?

I've built a few shops with OScommerce before andfound it really hard to manipulate the templates into something that matches my deisgn. So many files pulled in from everywhere and it was really confusing at my level! I'm not a beginner but I'm a long long way towards being an expert and self taught.

Does anyone think CMS Made Simple could work for me?

The other one I'm considering is Joomla. I looked at another very very simple one as well but I wanted to host the data myself - control freek!

Please help me if you can.

Thanks

Jo

Posted: **Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:11 pm**

This sounds like "dynamic content areas" within "static pages".
In this topic: http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 244.0.html Kermit describes how to fully cache dynamic pages to gain more speed. He also describes a method how to integrate parts of the site that may not be cached and will always be loaded dynamically using an iframe.
You could insert iframes in your pages that contains specific pages of CMSms.

Example:

In the backend create a page named "Whatever you want" with a simple template that just contains the general doctype, html, headand body stuff an just a cms function you need (e.g. {content} or {news} or anything else from the cms you need).
In your static page insert an iframe with the source of that cms page.

Template of your CMSms page:

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<__html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="de" >
	<head>
		<title>not needed</title>
	</head>
	</__body>
		{content}
	<__body>
</__html>

Your page:

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<__html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="de" >
	<head>
		<title>Your title</title>
		...
	</head>
	</__body>
		...
		<__iframe src="yourURLtoCMSms/index.php?page=Whatever you want />
	<__body>
</__html>

So you can easily manage just that content area using CMSms.

Posted: **Wed Sep 17, 2008 3:48 am**

That´s asolution, but iframes are horrible for SEO. That´s your choice, that depends on what do you really want to do.

I do recommend using global content blocks, and importing all pages that will want to use in content->pages.

Start, give us a link and we will help you on what you want to do.

Posted: **Wed Sep 17, 2008 8:37 am**

Thank you

I'm half way through the install and will get in touch as soon as the basics are ready, I'll try and follow your instructions first and see what happens!

All the best,

Jo

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