You are reading this tutorial because you have a website powered by the Joomla! content management system. Congratulations! Joomla! is one of the best ways to run a website. It is dynamic and expandable, with a huge community of developers and users (see http://www.joomla.org for more info.)


This tutorial covers how to log in to the “back end” of your Joomla! website. The back end may also be referred to as the “Administration Area”. This isthe area of your website that visitors do not see. You are strongly advised to use the free FIREFOX web browser to access the back end of your website, instead of Internet Explorer, AOL, Opera, or Netscape.  Follow the instructions there and download the browser. Once you have downloaded the Firefox web browser, start it up so that you can access the Internet. Once you are on the Internet with the Firefox web browser, you are ready to enter your website’s back end administration area. To Access the back end, you must got to the administration area of your
website.

For example, if your website is www.mysite.com you must type www.mysite.com/administrator browser.You should now be on the administration log in page. If you are not, check to see if you have spelled your domain name or “administrator” correctly.

To access the back end you must enter a valid username and password into the login box. Floating World Web Development will have given you an administration username and password. Enter them now and press the login
button. Now you should be inside the back end administration area.