cms made simple is like most other CMS, but made simple.
I've gotten used to the MOdx way of doing things, but for projects that are much simpler cmsms is great.
I've just started and am impressed so-far. There are equivalents of the modx chunks and snippets. and smarty templating is dead simple.
I've taken an old table based design and replaced the content with the content tag, and added some metas and the title tag. Created two versions, for home page and other content pages, and put some redundant code into Global Content Blocks. I've also put the included news module in.
Currently I'm moving some of the table stuff to divs still.
But I'm quite impressed how quickly I've been able to get into this. I think I'll be using cmsms more than modx in the future.