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Here's a link to the "Designer" section of the documentation.

http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... d/Designer

The way I do it is to build a design using a code editor - I use Dreamweaver, but it could be notepad for example. When it's how I want it I port it to CMSMS. I may be going about it the long way, but it works for me.