PersonaDefenseHQ.com - my first CMSMS site
Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 12:24 am
Never heard of CMSMS until about a few weeks ago. Sorry, I live in a cave.. 
I wish I had known about it before! A very well done, configurable CMS. I'm loving it!
Here's my first stab at using CMSMS: PersonalDefenseHQ.com
I'm using 1.7.1 "Escada", and one non core module: SiteMap Made Simple.
For the theme, I'm using Blueprint CSS framework as the core, and additional custom CSS.
Javascript: JQuery + Facebox lightbox + some additional simple JS scripting.
The site is a Commission Junction ecommerce affiliate site for personal self defense products, such as stun guns, TASERS and pepper spray. The content for the products listed are pulled in from Commission Junction Web Services APIs. Using User Defined Tags, I assigned the API parameters to PHP variables, included my custom PHP script in the UDT to fetch the data, and assigned the results to smarty tags. I used a custom Global Content Block as a template for displaying the smarty content. Then for each product page I inserted the particular UDT tag and the GCB as the page content.
As far as design, my intent was that the site should a generic ecommerce feel... after looking around at some of the examples here on this thread, I hang my head in shame.. some of these sites are really stunning! Just shows the endless possibilities of CMSMS.
Thank you for making CMSMS... it makes Content Management .. uhmm... so simple!
I wish I had known about it before! A very well done, configurable CMS. I'm loving it!
Here's my first stab at using CMSMS: PersonalDefenseHQ.com
I'm using 1.7.1 "Escada", and one non core module: SiteMap Made Simple.
For the theme, I'm using Blueprint CSS framework as the core, and additional custom CSS.
Javascript: JQuery + Facebox lightbox + some additional simple JS scripting.
The site is a Commission Junction ecommerce affiliate site for personal self defense products, such as stun guns, TASERS and pepper spray. The content for the products listed are pulled in from Commission Junction Web Services APIs. Using User Defined Tags, I assigned the API parameters to PHP variables, included my custom PHP script in the UDT to fetch the data, and assigned the results to smarty tags. I used a custom Global Content Block as a template for displaying the smarty content. Then for each product page I inserted the particular UDT tag and the GCB as the page content.
As far as design, my intent was that the site should a generic ecommerce feel... after looking around at some of the examples here on this thread, I hang my head in shame.. some of these sites are really stunning! Just shows the endless possibilities of CMSMS.
Thank you for making CMSMS... it makes Content Management .. uhmm... so simple!