Logging into your own site

Learning to log into your site is the first step toward customizing the look of your website. There are actually two ways to look at your own website.

The first we will call the public or Plone front-end. This is the version of your site that all public visitors will see and experience, and this is the website design that we will be learning to customize. When you install Plone, the default Plone site looks like the following:

This we will call "Plone"

The second way to log into your website is through a special webmaster back-end, which is called the ZMI. This stands for Zope Management Interface. The ZMI might seem strange and confusing at first, but after using it awhile you will understand how powerful it is and why the system provides this second management interface for only site webmasters. Typically, the ZMI looks like the following:

This we will call the "ZMI"

Now let's walk through the login process...