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The Control Panel has a Top Menu where all the administrative functions can be found. When you move your mouse over a menu item on the Top Menu, a drop down list will appear. You will select the function you want to work with in this list. Some commonly used functions are shown as icons in the center of the Control Panel. You can click here to select the function you want to use.

There are a lot of functions in the Control Panel and we have only practiced some of them. In fact, those are the most commonly used functions for the majority of websites.

However, you may want to know about the other functions as well. The following is an overview of these functions. It helps you pick the right function for the task you want to do. This table will list and explain these functions in the order of their appearance on the Top Menu.

Function:	Purpose:	Frequency of use:	Level of expertise:
System Tools	For setting up basic configurations of your website.
- IP Blocking	For blocking computers with certain IP addresses to access your website. It is normally used to block people from a geographic region to access your website.	Rarely	High
- Website Configuration	For setting up some default values for your website.	Seldom	High
- Theme Manager	This is the file area where the files for different color themes are stored. You should not move, rename, or delete any of these files and folders. This area is for programmers use only.	Not recommended to use	Very high
Account Manager	For managing members and assigning permissions to different groups of members.
- User Group	Here, you will determine which permissions to be granted to a User Group. You can add a new group or remove an existing group. (A User Group consists of members who have the same set of permissions).	Depending on the website (*)	High
- User Account	Here, you can activate a member, de-activate a member, delete a member, assign a member to any User Group. Here, you can also change the username and password for a member when it is requested. (A registered user will have an account with the website. ‘User Account’ and ‘Member’ mean the same thing).	Depending on the website (*)	High
Resource Manager	This is the file area of your website. You can use this tool to upload files to the web server. You should not move, rename or delete any files or folders because your website may no longer find the files to display the pages.	Less common	Average
Website Manager	This group contains functions to manage categories, top banner, contact page information, etc. Here, you can also manage the list of authors and keywords.
- Categories	For adding, editing and deleting categories. Here, you can choose a different interface for a category. You can change the way a list is diplayed and the way an article is displayed on the website. You can turn on or off the special boxes for Hot News, Hot Video, Hot Photos… Here, you can also turn on or off any advertisement position.	Less common	Average
- Link Categories	Link category is a special type of category used only for web links. If your website has a page providing a list of links to other websites, you will use link categories to organize these web links into groups. Each group is a link category. Here, you will create (and edit) these link categories.	Less common	High
- Banner Setup	For uploading top banner and logo to the website.	Less common	Average
- System post	This function is used to manage some special articles of the website such as “Privacy Policy”, “Copyright Notice”, “Disclaimer”, etc. The links to these articles are normally at the bottom of the web pages.	Less common	Average
- Contact Page Info	This function is for editing information about your business or association. Contact Page Info is a special type of article which contains the address, phone number, email address, etc. of a business or association. When a viewer clicks on “Contact” or “Contact Us” on your webiste menu, he will see this article. The Contact page also contains a Contact Form for viewer to send comments, suggestions or inquiries to the website. You may also insert a map (provided by Google) to your location in the Contact page.	Less common	Average
- Authors	If your website displays authors along with the articles, you may need to manage the list of authors of these articles. If necessary, you can use this function to edit an author’s name. If you edit it here, all occurrences of this author will be updated.	Seldom	High
- Keywords	If your website displays keywords along with the articles, you may need to manage the list of keywords of these articles. If necessary, you can use this function to edit a keyword. If you edit it here, all occurrences of this keyword will be updated.	Seldom	High
Content Manager	For managing the content of the website. You will go to this group and select the kind of content you want to add or edit.
- Articles	For adding, editing, deleting articles including the “About Us” article.	Common	Average
- Video & Audio	For adding, editing, deleting video and audio items.	Common	Average
- Slide Show	For adding, editing, deleting slide shows.	Common	Average
- Books	For posting books on the website.	Depending on the website (*)	High
- PDF Books	For posting a book on the website in the form of a PDF flip book. In this case, the text will become images and the book is presented similar to a real book. Viewer can flip the pages to read.	Depending on the website (*)	High
- Comments	For managing the comments submitted by viewers about a specific article.	Depending on the website (*)	Average
- Advertisement	For managing advertisements on the website.	Depending on the website (*)	Trung bình
- Poll Mgnt	For creating an online survey (poll).	Less common	High
- Web links	For managing the web links if your website has a page providing a list of links to other websites.	Less common	High
- Calendar	For adding and editing events if your website has calendar of events.	Less common	High
Storage	This function lets you read the message that viewers sent to the website using the Contact Form. You will also know which articles are sent to friends by the readers. It also helps you email a newsletter or an article to all subscribers to the newsletter service.	Less common
- Subscribers Storage	If your website regularly sends a newsletter to your readers, your website will display a subscription form for readers to subscribe. This function is used to send newsletter to them.	Less common	Average
- Contact Storage	This is where you will read comments, suggestions and inquiries by people who use the Contact Form to submit. You need to use your own email to reply to these inquiries.	Less common	Average
- SendtoFriend Storage	This is where you find out which articles of your website are sent to viewer’s friends.	Less common	Average

Those functions marked as “Depending on the website (*)” in the “Frequency of use” column are only used with some websites. You can ignore these functions if your website doesn’t need them. Following are the kind of websites that may use these functions:

Functions “User Group” and “User Account” are used with a website that has many collaborators to help posting and editing the content. Collaborators are persons who register as members and were permitted to do some administration tasks for the website.

Functions “Books” and “PDF Books” are used when you need to post a whole book on the website. A book normally contains many chapters. Each chapter in a book is an article. Some books even group a few chapters into a part. Your website uses a different approach to reflect this structure of a book.

Function “Comments” is only used when a website allows readers to submit comments about an article. To prevent from irresponsible comments, an administrator (or a moderator) has to approve them before they will appear on the website.

Function “Advertisements” is only used with a website that needs to display advertisements. You may use this function for a different purpose such as showing an announcement, a picture, or a slide show at a specific position on the web page.