Advanced Design Integration

Make Any Design Work in CMSMS

Area: Design/Development - Level: Intermediate - Time: 9.00 - 12.30 
Trainer(s): Mark Reed

Summary: One of CMS Made Simple's primary strengths is the ability to integrate just about any design with little effort. This workshop, led by the dev team's HTML/CSS slicing expert will show you how to turn any design into a working CMS system that you can safely pass off to your client. 

Instant Modules

Using MCFactory and ModuleXtender

Area: Development - Level: Intermediate - Time: 9.00 - 12.30 
Trainer(s): Jean-Christophe Cuvelier

Summary: Many sites require custom modules for storing particular types of data, which can be time consuming to write from scratch for a single site or purpose. Learn how using MCFactory and ModuleXtender can speed up development significantly by removing the need to write modules for custom content types. In fact, these modules were used to create the very page you're reading.

SEO and CMS Made Simple

Area: Design/Development - Level: Beginner w/ Some CMSMS Experience - Time: 9.00 - 12.30 
Trainer(s): Gerben van Wijngaarden

Summary: CMS Made Simple is an incredibly flexible platform, making it perfect for Search Engine Optimization. Learn all proper SEO tactics and the tricks to implementing them correctly in CMSMS. 

Walk through CMS Made Simple - mini workshop

Most interesting features in the backend revealed -FREE WORKSHOP

Area: Basics of CMS Made Simple - Level: Beginners and intermediate - Time: 13.30 - 14.30 
Trainer(s): Ronny Krijt

Summary: If you have recently begun working with CMS Made Simple, this is a workshop you don't want to miss! And even for long time users this walkthrough may turn out to be a revelation. 

Back to Basics

Howto create main templates and styling of modules

Area: Design/Development - Level: Beginner w/ HTML/CSS Experience - Time: 14.45 - 17.00 
Trainer(s): John Scotcher

Summary: Aimed at people with knowledge of HTML and CSS, this workshop looks at how a developer can create templates for the main system and how the modules can be styled using their own templates and CSS.

Extending CMS Made Simple

Creating modules and plugins for CMSMS 1.8 and beyond

Area: Programming - Level: Intermediate - Time: 13.30 - 17.00 
Trainer(s): Samuel Goldstein and Jeff Bosch

Summary: Presented by members of the CMSMS core team, this workshop will show users with PHP development experience how to extend the system to meet their custom needs. Includes information on modifying modules to be prepared for the release of CMSMS 2.0 later this year.

jQuery, CMSMS and You

Site Optimization and Javascript with CMSMS

Area: Development - Level: Intermediate - Time: 13.30 - 17.00 
Trainer(s): Jeremy Bass

Summary: A two part workshop. First, we'll cover the basics of jQuery integration in CMS Made Simple using various examples. Then, the topic will turn to site optimization -- producing sites in CMSMS that are light, powerful and robust.