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I usually design fairly simple sites, that consist of a few pages, and I use css stylesheets, menu's and php includes for menu content. I am by no means a web programmer, but I can stumble around code good enough to usually figure something out if its simple enough.

However, I am now designing a site that will have a lot of user input/updates etc.  I've been meaning to start using CMS sites and after looking at wordpress, joomla etc. I find them far too complex and cumbersome for what I want, so I just downloaded cmsmadesimple and installed it on my existing xampp and mysql install.  

So far so good, admin interface is easier and laid out better than wordpress or joomla, but I still find it hard to find things (I'm used to plain pages in textpad), so I have the following questions that I have not been able to find answers in in any of the tutorials I've seen:

How do I get rid of the little printer icon that shows up beside any content I enter in? I don't want or need a printer, pdf or email icon beside any of my content.

How do I get into the menu in the sample page and edit it?

Is there a way I can delete all the "stuff" from one (or all) of the installed pages and just start from a blank template, then build menu's etc from there? Any of the tutorials just show me how to change themes etc. on the existing pages, I want to build up my pages from scratch, then worry about dressing them up.



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Glen_S wrote: How do I get rid of the little printer icon that shows up beside any content I enter in? I don't want or need a printer, pdf or email icon beside any of my content.

you'll find this in the template that is associated with the particular page

Glen_S wrote: How do I get into the menu in the sample page and edit it?

the menu is generated automatically (mostly) from the list of active pages.  If you deactivate a page, it automatically disappears from the menu.  Add a new active page, and the menu automatically shows it.  Reorder the pages, and the menu is reordered automatically.

Glen_S wrote: Is there a way I can delete all the "stuff" from one (or all) of the installed pages and just start from a blank template, then build menu's etc from there? Any of the tutorials just show me how to change themes etc. on the existing pages, I want to build up my pages from scratch, then worry about dressing them up.

Sure.  Just open a page, delete all the content, then add whatever content you want to add.  In the future, you can run the installer and choose to NOT install the sample content.  BUT, based on your post, it sounds like you would benefit from reading the sample content first...  There is lots of helpful information there, as well as in the official documentation.



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Thanks for the reply - for example I want to get rid of the entire footer section, #1 because I somehow changed something in it that makes it have the following content show up:

string(61) "Smarty error: unable to read resource: "globalcontent:footer"" string(61) "Smarty error: unable to read resource: "globalcontent:footer""

and #2 - I'd just like to know how, I have been going through all the items trying to get it to not show up on any pages, to no avail..


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In the template you are using for your pages, somewhere at the end you'll find a code that looks something like:
Now you can do 2 things:

1: Remove this line of code, and the error will be gone. But now you don't have a footer anymore.
2: Better is to go to 'Content' -> 'Global Content Blocks' and add a block named 'footer'. You can put anything you want in there.

There's lot of info about it on the forum or http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/User_Handbook/Admin_Panel/Content/Global_Content_Blocks.

Once you get to know how to use the GCB's you'll find them very easy to use, mostly because you only have to change code once, if necessary.