Navigating the Publisher Control Panel

Note: Access to the Publisher Control Panel and password management is regulated by your blog provider. Your Blog provider may provide a customized interface for you to access the Publisher Control Panel. Contact your provider if you are unable to log-in.

Blogs are managed using the Publisher Control Panel:

Using the Control Panel, you can compose and edit articles and reviews, post pictures, and change the appearance of your blog, among other things.

The Control Panel contains the following tabs:

Dashboard

The Dashboard tab shows you a quick overview of the current state of your blog. It displays lists of your blog's most recent entries, comments, and trackbacks, as well as some useful statistic for your blog, such as disk and transfer usage, the number of articles and photos that have been posted, and the number of administrators and subscribers.

Post

The Post tab lets you create new blog entries and edit existing ones.

Post Manager

The Post Manager tab allows you to manage the entries posted to your blog. It lists all the entries in your blog and allows you to edit and delete them. It also lets you create new organizational elements, such as Categories (groupings of articles) and Photo Albums (groupings of photos), and lets you control access to various parts of your blog.

Look & Feel

The Look & Feel tab lets you control the layout and appearance of your blog. It offers this control two ways — the easy way, using a drag-and-drop/point-and-click interface, and the power-user way, using template code and CSS styles.

Favorites

The Favorites tab lets you create and manage "favorites lists" or "blogrolls" — lists of your favorite links, which appear in the sidebars of your blog.

File Manager

The File Manager tab gives you access to a file area, which you can use as a place to store files for inclusion in your blog entries, a home for your static HTML pages, or as a place to keep a backup copy of your files.

Settings & Security

The Settings & Security tab is where you set various preferences for your blog (including its name), enable the blog's default options, set notification defaults whenever a new entry or comment is posted to your blog, and set the navigation defaults for your blog users.

This tab also offers options for setting the various security defaults for your blog.

Address Book

Using the Address book, you can create your own profile and display your privileges for your blog and your access privileges to other blogs. You also use the Address Book to specify which people or groups of people have special privileges on your blog.