To work on your website, you need to “Log In” to the website control panel. Here is how to do it:

Go to your website homepage and then add “/administrator” to the address and press enter.

For instance if your website was http://www.thebasicsoflife.com Then you would go to http://www.thebasicsoflife.com/administrator

You will come to a screen that looks like this:

Just enter the username and password we gave you for administering your Joomla! Site and press the “Login” button.

You will be taken to a screen that looks like this:

From here you can do everything you need to do on your website. This is the “Home” page of the administration part of your website.

Sometimes, when you do things on your website, you are not taken back here. When you want to get back here, just click on “Site”

in the upper left of the screen (See where the red arrow points above)

Now there are many things you can do that can mess up your website, so be a little careful.

Without giving the details of HOW TO work in the following 5 areas, we will now give you an overview of them.

The “HOW TO’s” are contained in other tutorials named after each of these areas.

1. Article Manager. (See where the red arrow points below)

This is the button to press to get to the Article Manager. Almost every web page is a Article page.

You will spend most all of your time working in the Article Manager.

2. Frontpage Manager. (See where the red arrow points below)

This is the button you press to work on the Home page of your website. It is a special kind of article page and

accessible from this button, within the Article Manager and by clicking on the Content menu.

3. Components. (See the item pointed to by a red arrow in the picture below)

This menu item called “Components” is where you will go to work on the “Contacts” page,

and create any forms using another component called “Performs”.

4. Menu. (See the menu item pointed to by a red arrow in the picture below)

This is the “Menu” item where you will work on the menu systems on the website

5. User Manager. (See where the red arrow points below)

Press this button to access the User Manager. This is where you add or delete users,

setup who gets system emails, change passwords, etc.

Now, OCCASIONALLY (like once out of 1,000 visits to the website) you will need to go to a couple other places, but the

tutorials for those special and rare occasions will show you how to get to those places.