The control panel its the administrative area of your website, from here you can manage all the content of your website. To enter in the control panel put in your browser the follow url (we suppose that your site are named www.yoursite.com):

When you type the url in your browser, a login form will appear. In it you can enter the superuser login and password (or an administrator login and password) (see picture 1), when you click on "Login", if the login and password are correct the administration area will appear (see picture 2).

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After the login you are in admin home section, this area have some informations about the administrator logged and quick links. You can use quick links to go quickly to certain area of the control panel, from quick links you can also edit your user informations (and password), change the website preferences, manage the metatags and view the statistics (and logs).
From control panel you can also check your private messages from other users.
To exit from control panel you can click on "logout" in the top of the page.

In the top of control panel you can also see the main menu, from here you can manage all the section of your website (the number of the icons in the main menu depends from the permissions of logged administrator, superuser have all permissions enabled). To go in a section click in the relative icon, you can use the first icon (Home) to go in the admin home page.

From control panel you can also set your preferred language for the administration side (use the Language editor menu in the right) when you change the administrator side language the website main language will not be changed (see installation for more details about website main language).

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