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Hello all,

I'm hoping someone can help me out with a quick question.

I see that CMSMadeSimple has a news module but I'm not clear on whether this can be used as a stand alone or whether you have to create your whole site in CMSMadeSimple?

You'll have to excuse me if this is a really stupid question - I'm not a developer, but I'm a web designer - hence my confusion on this subject, I'm a bit new too all this stuff.

I've got no need for a fully content managed website, I just want to be able to have my news section as a CMS so that it can easily be updated and managed.

Is CMSMadeSimple what I'm looking for or am I barking up the wrong tree?

Any advice greatly appreciated.

you're barking up the wrong tree...

CMSms is a full-blown content management system, and News is one component.  Without the rest of the CMS, I am unaware of any (reasonable) way to use the News module.

Is CMSMadeSimple what I'm looking for or am I barking up the wrong tree?

I think you're barking up the wrong tree.  CMSMS is a website content management package.  News is just a small portion of it, designed to be used within a CMSMS website, not apart from it.

Thank you both for your quick reply, I had a feeling that was going to be the case.

I don't suppose anyone knows of something far more basic that will do the job of a stand alone news module?

It's a long shot I know, but I've been searching for ages with no joy and my lack of development experience is seriously hindering my progress so I thought I'd come somewhere where people actually know what they are talking about who might be able to put me out of my misery

Are we supposed to guess what it is you are trying to build??

For a news management system/database that uses 'tags' to call the data to your existing website - you could try Coranto

Be aware that it is perl not php and uses flat files (although there is an MySQL add on).

what is the "rest" of the site setup with? static html or some other server-side app? (php, perl, python, ruby, java, etc, etc).

I've actually built sites that use nothing but the news module, pages only consist of {news} tags with other parameters...

So I would say no your not barking up the wrong tree, just not explaining yourself clearly...