Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Simplex CMS - A Blogger template for CMS/Business

Blogger blog can work as a CMS for a small company or business . Yes ,It can . I made a new template named Simplex CMS and this template is made for CMS-Business purpose .
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Unlike other blogger template ,this template work for CMS - business purpose ,it can be homepage for a business or company .
To install this template ,follow some steps bellow :

1,download template file and unzip . You will get a template file simplexcms.xml and a folder for images .
2,Upload all images to an image hosting service . I recommend Photobucket .
3,Open template file in any word editor you have ,find and replace "http://simplexcms1.blogspot.com" with your own blog url .
In this step ,if you see "http://simplexcms1.blogspot.com" in the links bellow :
"http://simplexcms1.blogspot.com/2008/10/about.html"
"http://simplexcms1.blogspot.com/2008/10/offer.html"
"http://simplexcms1.blogspot.com/2008/10/welcome.html"
Don't make any change . We will work with them later .
4, Login to your blogger account .Create 3 posts with names : about,offer,and welcome .Set the date for these posts a day in past (before the time you create blog ) to make sure these post never showed in the top of post list . Write something on these posts . For example :

Post named about introduce your company or service

Post named offer show up what you offer
Post named welcome is your welcome message .

5,Go to Posting tab ,continue to Edit Posts ,copy links of three post with names above : about,offer,and welcome .Link of these posts will look like :

"http://your_blog_url/...../.../about.html"
"http://your_blog_url/...../.../offer.html"
"http://your_blog_url/...../.../welcome.html"

Find
all links "http://simplexcms1.blogspot.com/2008/10/about.html" and replace them with "http://your_blog_url/...../.../about.html"
Find all links "http://simplexcms1.blogspot.com/2008/10/offer.html" and replace them with "http://your_blog_url/...../.../offer.html"
Find all links "http://simplexcms1.blogspot.com/2008/10/welcome.html" and replace them with "http://your_blog_url/...../.../welcome.html"

6,Find the code bellow and change this to your own . This is text of headline section in screenshot.


7,Here is the code of right sidebar . Find and change this to your own.



8,Code of footer .


9,To show product in product introduction section in homepage ,you can create post normally . But remember to set the label for them : product . Do not use upper case . All post is maximum 400 words length .
For example ,if you want to post a product name Iphone ,create a post ,write title for it : " Iphone" and in labels for this post textbox ,write product . And your product will be showed in product section .

10,To write posts in blog section ,set label for post : blog . You can use more than one label but label "blog" is required for showing posts in blog section .

Ok . This is basically tutorial on setting up and using this template . If you meet any trouble,you can comment here .
Hope you enjoy it .

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29 comments:

  1. you always come with a surprise... can't wait to see the more works from you brother...

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  2. Hello there.Your simple darkness is really stuning template.And tips also.I was wondering as i see you r expert can you help me with something.I have some wordpress template that is converted to blogger but is has bugs like when rearenging widget gets to error.So would you make just like that but on new your way with some elements from simple darkness.If you are please let me know and sent me email so i will describe more sent you template and give you what you need.Cheers

    mail is footballonlinevideo@gmail.com

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  3. Reeeealy good template! It has a photobucket error on the live demo though...?

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  4. @nick Cachet : this image isn't necessary ,so I didn't remove it . It all work quite well .

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  5. bro i like this template, can u send me this file to my email,, gwegtu@gmail.com
    i cant download with my phone,, n i dont hv computer,, please send this simplex cms file to my mail.. thanks

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  6. @joys : file was sent . Thank for caring .

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  7. Hi,
    Great template indeed! I have a few questions if you don't mind me asking:
    Any ideas how to remove/hide the date and author?
    What if I want to name "my products" something else than "product", how do I proceed without it all disappearing?
    Thanks a lot!
    -Paul

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  8. @nhamngahanh

    1. Yes I knew about this code, the problem is that it doesn't show up on your template so I am kind of lost. I really need to remove it though.

    2. All right, thanks!

    -Paul

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  9. @Paul : I copied this code from template file ,so could you check template again ? use search function of your word editor will be faster .

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  11. That's what I did and couldn't find it... :(

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  12. Great Template brother. However your photobucket image is exceed bandwidth. I'm suggest you to use blogger, there's unlimited bandwidth.

    I'm wait your next great work.

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  13. @Rohman : thanks for your comment .

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  14. Excellent blog, bookmarked it and read it every day. Excellent templates and tutorials too.

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  15. @kepners : The image error on photobucket doesn't affect to this template .It's not necessary but I forgot to delete when packaging this template . It can work properly without this image ,my friend.
    Enjoy it.

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  16. hi, How would you put a content slider such as the one on simplexdarkness. I would like to have one of those slick content sliders at the headline area of this blog. Kind regards.

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  17. Hi, thanks for this template, this is what i'm looking for..thanks.

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  18. Dear nhamngahanh,

    Great template but How to remove the photobucket error bcos after the download I still get it? Pls assist

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  19. please fix this template

    thanks

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  20. @Dat Tai ,Nazir : this is Photobucket error . You can fix this by download template package ,upload images to another image hosting services ,and change the link of images in xml template file accordingly .

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  21. Hi, i like this template. But, Can I add widgets on the template?

    Thanks.

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  22. @Faqih:I made a post with title " how to enable widget in any place in blogger" ,you can search on my blog for detail . I hope with that post ,you can add many widget as you want

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  23. your host in photobucket bandwitch extended.. please renew again, so i cant copy that image

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  24. nice.....template.....permissions....i wanna get one please
    but i have a few question how categories work....please

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  25. @nuansa : you can copy images when it live again ^^
    @Lost Child clothing : what can I do for you ,man?

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  26. It's me again :)
    I managed to fix the photobucket problem :)

    But I still need your help especially about the TAB thing, pretty please..

    I hope you don't mind to help me :)
    (I emailed you too yesterday)

    Many thanks
    http://favoriflame.blogspot.com

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  27. hi there, thanks for such a great template.
    could you help me remove read more from static pages???? you have done something in the javascript n i don't think i can do it myself.
    help me please. thanks

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