Final words on the ZMI and logging in

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A more advanced distinction about the ZMI screens

There is one thing about the ZMI that you may notice, depending on how you get into it and how your site is configured.

If you get into the ZMI from the Plone website itself, or by typing in a /manage after the site's URL,  you will probably only see that specific site in the ZMI view.

If you get into the ZMI from the root of your whole website, then you will see not only this one Plone website, but potentially other's you have installed. You can always tell if this is the case by noting if you see the "Control Panel" in the small ZMI window on the left from of the screen. The following is what this looks like:

Remember that from the hosted Internet website we covered in an earlier lesson, you get into the whole ZMI by typing http://admin.mydomain.com . To get there from a Windows installed Plone, you can type http://localhost:8080/manage or press the Zope Management Interface button on the Plone Controller.

Final Words on Logging In

In a more advanced topic we will go over differences in the way that some of the browsers might display your website. For now, it is important to remember to view your site using the combination of browsers most likely being used by the majority of your visitors.

So far we have covered things that we will use constantly throughout the rest of the steps in this lesson. We are now ready to begin the next critical part of the process, controlling who can join and log into the site while we are designing it...