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Hi - I am just getting started with CMSMS and I am so far very impressed.  Can I please ask a question.  I would like multiple content areas on a page, is this possible.  Let me explain.

On the home page I would like say a column for news, then a middle column for noticeboard content and then perhaps another column for other information.

On pages within the website I would like maybe some pages to have some content in the middle and then some in the right hand column.

Hopefully that all makes sense and thats for your time.

If you go to Extensions > Tags and read the content tag help it will explain how to do this...

Or if you had read the default content like this page it will tell you...

http://multiintech.com/defaultcontent/h ... types.html

There are several ways to accomplish this with CMSMS.  Firstly, you will need to make a home page template and an interior page template with the HTML and CSS needed for your layout.

For your news, use the News module and add the tag {news} in the column you want news to display.  Look at the News module help for additional parameters available.

If you want an additional area of content that allows each page the ability to have custom content, images, etc. in the content editor, then use something like {content block="Extra_Content" Label="Extra Content"} and that will show up on every page assigned to the template.

you can also manage additional areas of content using Global Content Blocks.  Create a GCB, and then copy/paste the tag into the template where you want the content to show.