How to tell you are logged into Plone OK

When you log in, two things should become immediately noticable to you. Here is a screenshot of the top right 2/3 of your site:

First, in the upper right I have boxed in with red a set of hyper-links that appear where before the log in hyper-link was located. This is basically a mini control panel that will stay in what is called the personal bar during your entire logged in session. The selections are as follows:

• A pawn icon next to your users id - This identifies you, and is a hyper-link to a mini profile page (you can later customize an image of you if you wish), which includes a useful history of all the recent content you have created on the site.
• my folder - A hyper-link to your very own folder in the site's Members folder. Every site user by default has rights to create content, like folders, images, and pages in their own folder, even if they do not have rights to places like the home page.
• preferences - This takes you to a powerful control panel, with options for you as a site user to customize your own information, like email address, personal picture, etc. You get these by clicking personal preferences in the center part of thr screen.  As site administrator you also have special powers in the site, that normal users would not normally see. This is the site setup box that is in the left column. Note that when you log in as site administrator, you will also notice that by default you will have an addition hyper-link called site setup in the far upper right of the website.
• undo - A method of undoing anything you might have done on the site in the recent past, such as bringing back a page you  deleted in error.
• log out - This is how you get out of the site.
  

The red arrow in the screen grab above points to the second major indicator that you are logged in as the site administrator. Because you have rights to create, modify, or delete all the content on the site, you will see a green bar with menu tabs appear above all content.

So you have successfully logged into Plone.

Now let's take a more detailed look at one of the hyper-links we just discussed above to see the easy way to get into the ZMI...