<p>CMS Made Simple {cms_version} was installed with numerous default templates (you choose this during the installation process). These are to display some of the features of CMS Made Simple and to give you a head start when creating your own web sites.</p>
<p>The tags that are unique to templates in CMS Made Simple are described on the page {cms_selflink page='cmsms_tags' text='CMSMS tags in the templates'} (see menu to the left). Click on any link beneath that page in the menu to the left to see what the default templates look like.</p>
<h4>Changing the style of Default Templates</h4>
<p>All of the templates and style sheets have comments throughout them to help you find where to change the look of them.</p>
<h3>Menus/navigation</h3>
<p>Two kinds of navigation are used in these templates. For each there is a menu template in the Menu Manager. <strong>CSSMenu </strong>is a dropdown menu using only CSS. Well, for Internet Explorer 6 some JavaScript has to be used... Two of the page templates are using CSSMenu for navigation, {cms_selflink page='cssmenu_horizontal' text='one with the menu horizontally at the top'} and the other {cms_selflink page='cssmenu_vertical' text='with the menu vertically to the left'}.</p>
<p>The other navigation type is what we call <strong>Simple Navigation</strong>. That is just an unordered list that gets its style and appearance from the style sheets (CSS). Also here {cms_selflink page='top_left' text='one page template is using a horizontal simple navigation'} and the other {cms_selflink page='navleft' text='a vertical menu'}.</p>
<p>The menu tag in each template is used like this: <code>{ldelim}menu template='cssmenu.tpl'}</code>, where the <code>cssmenu.tpl</code> is the name of the Menu Manager template, if you make a custom menu template you don't need to use the .tpl on the end. More parameters can be used, for example to start a menu from the second level, collapse the children pages until the parent is clicked etc. Read more about that in the Menu Manager Help in the Admin Panel.</p>