Hi Trickster,
Creating your first CMS pages can seem confusing in the beginning, but you'll get the hang of it soon. Once you do, you'll be amazed at the ease and flexibility CMSB offers.
You will probably want to change the extension of your pages that use PHP to .php instead of .htm or .html. This tells your server that you want the page treated as a PHP page and to pull your content information from your database. (There are ways to instruct your server to do the same with .htm and .html, but for now it's easier to change the extension.
You can run any combination of html and php pages on your site, but pretty soon I'll bet you'll be switching them all.
One major difference between HTML hard coding and CMS, is that with CMS the information displayed on the page is pulled from fields in either one, or a number of database tables (sections) that you create.
Those database tables can each contain of either one record (a single record database table (for an about us section for example), or a series of records in a multi-record table (a list of videos for example).
Let's get started creating your first page
In, in your admin area under section editors, create a simple single record editor and call it Index.
Then go to the menu of existing sections (left side of the admin page) and click on the new "Index" section that you just created.
Add some information in the fields provided, and save the record.
Now go to the code generator in the admin section and choose the Index section, and the Detail page radio button.
Paste the code generated into a blank web page, name it indextest.php and upload it to your server.
Notice where the various pieces of information appear on the viewer page and compare it to the code of the page.
You can add any fields you like to the editor, re-generate the code, and place the code snippets anywhere on your page that you'd like.
Once you get the hang of this, try inserting the code at the top of the page into your real pages, and then inserting the appropriate code snippets where you want the fields (pieces of information) to appear on your page.
It may take a bit of getting used to, but once you understand the concepts behind CMS, there's virtually nothing that can not be done with CMSB.
Hope that gets you started,
Best,
Jerry Kornbluth
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