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CMSMS manages contents (pages, templates, css, modules, etc...) from the database. This means that most of the work, configuring, designing, publishing) doesn't require modifying files, with the sole exception of media files (mainly images).
You need to refer to:

• - CMSMS sample content (assuming you have installed it): it has a lot of info about the way CMSMS works;
• - http://docs.cmsmadesimple.org/ ...
• - more specifically: http://docs.cmsmadesimple.org/layout/cr ... n-template;

Hope this helps you starting up.

I don't know what's 'your' difference between index.php and 'homepage' but:

Often web hosting has a index.htm of index.html as a default placeholder. Most of the times index.htm(l) 'overrules' an existing index.php.

That would cause 'www.example.com to show a different webpage than 'www.example.com/index.php

If so, use your ftp client or hosting provider admin panel to remove/rename that index.htm(l) file.

Another way is to change the calling order

http://www.htaccess-guide.com/directoryindex-uses/