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Workshops day: Workshops for site owners: Provisional schedule

Dec 16, 2011

09:00 Using CMS Made Simple - an introduction to the system
This workshop will show you around all the main content sections in admin then give practical tutorials on working with the file and image managers including basic image editing.

09:45 Working with pages
This workshop will show you how to add and edit pages.  It will also deal with all options in the options tabs.

10:30 Coffee Break

10:45 Smarty tags - how to add functionality to your site.
This workshop will deal with the basics of smarty tags and tour some of the basic tags available in the system.
It will also deal with Global Content blocks, how to create them and how to use Smarty to add them to your pages.

11:45 The News Module
A look at the news module and all of its many uses including adding custom fields, using different catagories and how news can help you to get your visitors to provide content for you.

12:45 Lunch

13:45 Your site and search engines
Ways in which you can use CMSMS to optimise your site for search engines, specifically Google. 


14:30 Popular Modules
A tour of some of the popular modues your site may run including FormBuilder, front End Users and Online shopping - a quick and dirty guide to where you will find the various administration options available to you and how to use them.

15:15 Coffee Break

15:30 Open forum - ask us your questions.
Do you have questions relating to your own website administration?  this session is for you to get the answers to those problems that are bugging you.

16:30 Formal day close - but we will be available to chat afterwards.