CMS Made Simple 1.10.3

I have tried multiple CMS's recently and I was really disappointed not to find a single one that would be fast (=lightweight), simple and would do the most basic stuff (=static pages, newsflashes, 2-level horizontal menu aso.). But then I found CMSMS and realized that I found the one. Even though it's really simple to customize, it stuits perfectly even for my customers to use it on their own. Great work, guys!

So.. like.. wheres that simple part comes up with this cms??
Theres absolutely nothing simple in this cms, and i mean absolutely nothing! Periot!

Comparing this to user friendy wordpress is hilarious..

As others I have tried different CMS and stuck with CMSMS. Installation and setup is pretty easy and straight forward. There are quite a lot of modules and plugins available which are relatively easy to add. Ready to be used templates are available as well but a basic understanding of HTML, CSS and other techniques are required if you want tweak a template or add some special features to it. I believe this is a valid statement for almost all CMS around.
Getting a new look and feel isn't so easy as for example with Wordpress but if you don't like to make your hands dirty us Wordpress.

My ISP is running on IIS 6.0, windows NT Server. Templates will work in IE 7 but not in IE8 or Mozilla since the css files are not being read or understoord anymore. Shame I had to try other cms but hopefully tis will be fixed soon

Flat out.. if youâ??re serious about web development, if you need to pass sites off to clients to edit, this is the smartest choice.. I handle tons of sites and after trying Drupal, WordPress, jumola, typo, mod x and a few more and getting pissed off clients I found CMSMS, I will not go back to any others. Sure they are prettier for nowâ?¦ but power and control for me out weighs prettyâ?¦ plus you just need to make a template to handle the â??pretty issueâ?. 2.0 will fix that as well.
For those that find the forum as an issue, I am in there alot, just to help others and there are many like me that want to help.
As the community gets bigger, the better cmsms gets. More and more modules are being developed every day. I know Iâ??ve got a few out.
Overall Iâ??d say if you know how to write html and css you should have no trouble with the basics and you can get the how to book too if you get stuck and don't want to go to the forum. Most complaints on things like speed and what not can be solved with good coding practices.

The future is bright for CMSMS

Cheers -J

As a drupal user and developer I am used to complex CMS's but CMS made simple is NOT simple.

For example:
In wordpress, to find and use a theme, you search for it, download it, and activate it, using 3 links.

Here are the CMS made simple instructions:

These themes are uploaded here are contributed by independant third parties as a free service. The CMS Made Simple project make no guarantees that the themes available here are functional, tested, valid or compatible with your system. You are encouraged to read the information found in any help files for each theme before attempting the installation. (xml files may not contain help files.)
XML themes

In site admin go to Layout » Theme Manager second tab 'Import', Browse to find .xml file on your comp. dbl. click it, should now be showing in the box, click Import, it will take you back to first tab.

Now go to Layout » Templates under 'Active' you see a red X click that to activate the theme/template, now you can use it...
Zipped themes

Some of these templates come zipped, so you need to take all the images and put them in a folder in uploads/images/, or the file may have a read me which will tell you where to put them, if not when you look at the CSS you will see the path it looks for...

Then open the template file with an editor like notepad, not word pad or word they may add formatting I use the free PSPad editor...

Then copy/paste it into a new template in the admin Layout » Templates at the bottom click Add New Template name it and paste the code in Content: edit box, erasing any thing in it first, click Submit...

Open the CSS file copy/paste into new CSS, Layout » Stylesheets, Add a Stylesheet, name it and paste the code in Content: edit box, erasing any thing in it first, click Submit...

If it came with a .mm file rename it to have .txt then open it in notepad, copy it, then in admin go to Layout » Menu Manager and Add Template name it and paste the code in Content: edit box, click Submit...

You may need to adjust the Template to reflect the name you gave the Menu Template...

Then go back to Layout » Templates and across from the new template right side click the little orange CSS icon you will be at Layout » Templates » Current Associations at the bottom is a drop down for 'Add a Stylesheet' find your new stylesheet click it and it should show in the drop down window, click Add a Stylesheet and it should show in the upper part...

Now it should work...

Hi
Super CMS and very easy to create a web site
I liked it no problems
I have 7 web site run with CMS MS
very simple themeplate system not like otheres Joo... or Dru.. & so on
I create every site in a day

Does not support php 5.3!

What can I say, it's a GREAT cms.

Had a look here. Looks promising. Will give it a try!

I use cmsmademsimple. It's a very good cms

I like this site! It is so simple! ish =))

This is real cms! I am working with cms made simple is 2 years. I like cms made simple

owever, custom content types are very important to many clients, and this thing doesn't have that option. I need a way to create my own content forms like I can in Drupal, or like I can in WordPress with the Flutter plugin.

CMSMS lives up to its name. Its simple. I've used since it was beta and find it to be pretty flexable.

One of the core developers appears to be a complete a$$hole The Forums are hard to search and poorly organized, so finding things is initially difficult and asking questions already answered gets you flamed by the guy.