Newbie, how to add menu item?

[robmorin]

Hello all i am new to CMS made simple. I have used Drupal in the past, but grew tired of its complexity.... as my site is simple...

I installed the latest version of CMSMS, i installed the Gallery module but cannot see how one would access it to see pics, i figure i need to add it to the menu on the left... but how does one do this, can someone direct me to a FAQ or documentation that explains it, i did search around but did not fins anything that simply shows how to add menu item...

Any help appreciated...

Thanks and have a great day!

[Wishbone]

You have to add a page called "Gallery" or whatever. This will automatically (by default) show up in the menu. In this page, you can add some text, or whatever you want.. Somewhere in that page, add {Gallery}.. This will show all images in the Gallery folder and links to the sub-folders. The beauty of this method is that you can add a gallery to News articles, blog entries, and even an item in a Products list by just adding {Gallery} to the article. Note that if you want a sub-gallery, you can specify {Gallery dir="dir1/dir2"}

The defaults don't look that good, so you might have to go to the Gallery module and update the template (Fancybox is the default template). In this template, you can change the template (HTML+logic), the CSS and the Javascript to make it match your exact need.

Almost no module in CMSMS is plug-and-play.. They have generic examples, and you must modify the template and/or CSS to make it look exactly how you want.


All of the Gallery options and other info is listed in the gallery help.

[robmorin]

I see i assumed that a CMS named CMS made simple would be simple, my bad i guess....
I do not know anything about CSS, i know a bit of HTML
I created a page name Gallery and added the {gallery} tag in it...
So then the pics showed up, however i cannot seem to get the default text out of that page, the stuff that says...

GalleryThank you for installing the Gallery module. If you have uploaded some images to the 'uploads/images/Gallery' folder, you will see them below. You can edit titles, descriptions and thumbnail sizes in the admin section. Check out all the other features this module offers in the Module Help.1 image

and the lining up of the pics and folders is odd, it goes off to the right in a descending order, i guess i need to edit some code to fix that too... is there not any ready made themes or modules that one can use rather than learning CSS...

Thanks...

[robmorin]

Ok i found the place to alter the comments...

I guess i need to learn how this CMS works from scratch... its completely different form Drupal, joomla and nuke quite a bit...

Thanks...