Website Administration

Overview

Why are we talking about a Content Management System? When adding content to your page, you can focus on what you are writing, the layout is not your concern. The "bells and whistles" are within the template script. The template script renders the HTML and CSS and arranges your content elements accordingly.

You can look at a page as a node in a tree structure. Each node is extended with properties. These properties are your content elements. There are no layout/HTML/CSS elements, just content attached to a node. That's why we call this system a Content Management System (CMS).

When using Magnolia's "author" instance, the AdminCentral will, by default, open the website workspace. This is where you will be spending most of your time. The website tree is where you create new web pages, edit content, and do other tasks necessary to build your site.

The following sub pages will describe how to manage pages and their content. We will not just describe how to manage pages, we want to encourage you to try it! The following sections can be reproduced if you have Magnolia's default installation running. It is assumed that you have a Magnolia instance ready to be used for testing things out by yourself, using the sample content and templates provided by the sample module, and that you already know how to login and access the AdminCentral.