What's a CMS?
A Content Management System allows you to update your website without needing to know any 'code'.
It provides a simple way to update content, add & remove pages and move things around on your site, without needing to do any coding or come back to Codeistry - you can manage your own site yourself without needing us!
The CMS that we usually use is MODx - a flexible, modern, open source CMS which allows complete freedom to manage and run websites - without needing to come back to us. You can add and remove pages, sections, images and copy - re-arranging the site and changing things how & when you like.
Adding a new page using MODx
To prove how simple MODx makes running sites, I'll quickly show you how I'd add a new page to this site:
Click Create Document
Click the Create Document button to create a new blank page. You can create documents anywhere in your site's structure. Creating a child document makes the parent a folder. All the menu's and navigation on our sites are dynamic, so your new page will automatically appear in the right place in all your site's menu's - you don't have to do anything!
Fill in the Title
Enter the page's title. If you like, you can also enter the document's alias (used in SEO friendly URL's), link attributes & menu title, among other things.
Fill in the text, click save
Add your content - text, images, lists, tables, etc... using the easy to use built-in editor - and then click Save.
Publish Page
When you're happy with the new page, publish it so it becomes live on the site.
That's it - done!