CMS - Content Management System...

The CMS in your catalog system allows you to edit/delete or create new pages based on the design template of your site. It also allows you to edit theme sections and create snippets.

Page Management
 This page contains the following fields of input.

  • Title: This information appears in the HTML <TITLE>
  • Content Area: The main content for the page
  • Meta Keywords: Descriptive keywords which appear in the meta tags to enhance seach engine indexing.
  • Meta Description: Description of the page or site also appearing in the meta tags for seach engines.
  • Sequence Number: A number to control the order in which the page appears in the navigation.
  • Active Flag: Toggle the page on and off from public view
  • Navigation Button: You may upload an image to appear as a button in the navigation
  • Navigation Button On: An alternate button image will be displayed when the visitor is actively viewing the page.

Theme Sections
Are used to store editable sections of your design. Simply create a file called "filename.inc" and store it in "ckinc/themes/yourthemename" You must then chmod to 777 or 766 so the file is writeable on the server. The script include to integrate a theme section into your template is:

<script language="php">include("$incdir/themes/$Theme/yourfilename.inc");</script>

Snippets

Snippets are parts of pages that are editable. Your designer will define if there are snippets available to edit or not. Below are the fields for input.

  • Title : This is the name of the snippet .
  • Content Area: The content of the snippet.
  • TAG: The tag information appears after a snippet has been entered. This is the code needed to make the snippet display with the web page document - depending on the type of include that is needed.

Unlike theme includes - Snippets are independant of the catalog and can be used to store content in non-catalog pages. Each snippet has it's own unique ID. Please look at the sample code output in the snippet admin. If you delete a snippet without removing the include your page will show an error.

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