To access the Joomla! Administrator area, log in with a User account with administrative privileges.

You can do this in one of two ways:

• From the home page (Front Page) of the site via the Main Menu>Administrator button

• By typing the URL http://www.yourwebsite.com/administrator into your browser Location Bar.

A fresh installation of Joomla! will have one User installed. This User is known as the Super Administrator. The Super Administrator has the login name of 'admin'. You will have created a password during the Joomla! installation for the Super Administrator.

NOTE: For security, you should rename the Super Administrator's login and password as soon as possible. For increased security use a mixture of lowercase, UPPERCASE, numerics, and special characters in your password and ideally there should always be a minimum of six characters.

Don't use favourite pet names, family names, or plain language words for your password either instead, for example, of administrator use 4Dm1n!5trat0r.

• Add or edit a User in the Super Administrator group

• Access the Global Configuration settings

• Access the Mass Mail function

• Manage/install Templates

• Manage/install Language files

Manager:

The Manager Group is generally restricted to matters of content creation. A User in this group, in addition to the restrictions for an Administrator, cannot:

• Manage Users
• Install Modules
• Install Components
• Access some Components (as determined by the Super Administrator)