Changing from CMS MADE SIMPLE (CMSMS) to Templates Express

Garrett · July 01, 2011, 08:52:38 AM

Hey! My Website is now used for a different purpose and a CMS doesn't seem right. I am looking forward to using the Personal Template on Templates Express, But I need to delete everything from CMS Made Simple via FTP. I am hoping I don't screw up. Any tips on how to help me do this faster and better?

EDIT: I deleted the CMS Made Simple. I got CMS Made Simple off. I can only See my Template Express website when I visit http://longhorntransportation.org ONLY. When I visit http://www.longhorntransportation.org it shows this message in a bunch of lines:

Warning: opendir(/home/longhorn/public_html/admin//lang) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: No such file or directory in /home/longhorn/public_html/lib/translation.functions.php on line 88

Jason · July 01, 2011, 08:56:38 AM

I don't see any error messages. I see a webpage that looks to be error-free.

Garrett · July 01, 2011, 08:59:34 AM

I got my TemplatesExpress page up. But how do I edit it? I don't see a edit button, and I don't know what file to edit via FTP. Can someone help me?

Garrett · July 01, 2011, 09:05:44 AM

Sorry to Double Post, but it still has the error on my end.

Jason · July 01, 2011, 09:14:48 AM

What url are you using?

Maybe your browser is not clearing cache correctly. Try control-F5.

As for how to edit it those templates, I think you have to do this yourself manually by editing the code yourself or using a web design/developement program. I found this online:

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"Templates Express is perfect for new, unexperienced users who want to have a standard website setup quickly and later develop it according to their needs. Templates Express is not a website editor! It will only install the templates and the user will need to edit them. Templates Express are templates designed by ViaStep's Sohotemplates division, a company specialized in creating templates for Soholaunch Pro. Please notice that Templates Express templates are independant of Soholaunch Pro and do not require any additional license nor can they be used with Soholaunch Pro. They are free for use with any Fantastico licensed server and all accounts on this server. Currently there are 56 templates available."

Garrett · July 01, 2011, 09:17:14 AM

It fixed it. Templates Express says you can edit it via FTP using HTML Editing. (thus why its extinsion on the domain is http://www.longhorntransportation.org/index.html

What file do I edit to edit my Template using HTML to make my website more than a bunch of letters?

EDIT: Is there a Free Website Builder that will make me a Website that looks professional?

Jason · July 01, 2011, 09:30:52 AM

Quote from: longhorn on July 01, 2011, 09:17:14 AM
What file do I edit to edit my Template using HTML to make my website more than a bunch of letters?

You would edit each page depending on what you needed to do. For example, index.html is your homepage. Your "how we work" page is how_we_work.html. Etc... Make sense?

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EDIT: Is there a Free Website Builder that will make me a Website that looks professional?

There are plenty of free html editors out there but if you don't know how to write code, you'll probably want to try to find a graphical editor. I can think of several commercial ones but I haven't personally used any free ones.

If you're looking for a paid one that's about as cheap as you're going to get while still being reputable, you might want to look at Coffee Cup's visual editor. I haven't used it myself but that's a good company when it comes to inexpensive software that's pretty well made.

http://www.coffeecup.com/designer/

You can google "free wysiwyg web editor" and see a bunch of them, I just can't comment on how good or safe they are.

If you want a script where you edit the site completely via a browser and don't need to know how to write code, I'd recommend going with WordPress.

Garrett · July 01, 2011, 09:43:20 AM

Isn't WordPress a Blog. I used WordPress as my personal blog, but I've never used it as a homepage. But I'd like a Text Homepage with Photo's.

Jason · July 01, 2011, 09:54:10 AM

Quote from: longhorn on July 01, 2011, 09:43:20 AM
Isn't WordPress a Blog. I used WordPress as my personal blog, but I've never used it as a homepage. But I'd like a Text Homepage with Photo's.

It was built to be a blog but I've built (and manage) multiple websites where I don't use the blog functionality at all.

It's basically an all-in-one website system. You don't have to blog at all.

Mark · July 02, 2011, 10:57:40 AM

With WordPress, you can set a page as your homepage instead of the blog portion of it (see my website, www.somesecretplace.com for an example, and marvel at the fact it never gets updated.

). So, what you could do if you want to show photos, is create a page with all the photos you want on it, then in the settings change that page as the homepage.

The setting is Settings > Reading > Front page displays: A static page (select below)

Note that you will have to create a blank page called 'blog' or something of that nature to set as your posts page.

Garrett · July 02, 2011, 02:56:40 PM

Thank You. I fixed it. How can you change fonts and change Font Size in WordPress?

Mark · July 02, 2011, 03:01:57 PM

Go to Appearance > Editor and the file that's automatically selected to edit is your "Stylesheet" which is where the theme get's all it's styling information.

Look for a section called "Fonts" and that's where you'll make your changes. Be VERY careful with the changes you make as you can mess things up. In fact, before you begin, I'd copy everything there to Notepad, save it, and then make your changes. This way, if something gets messed up, you can go back.

Garrett · July 02, 2011, 03:08:36 PM

How do I disable Comments for a page? I would like to keep my current font.

Jason · July 02, 2011, 03:25:16 PM

Edit the page and near the bottom is a check box for that.

This might help you: http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page