turtol content managment system
The ToolBar and Edit Mode
After logging in, you'll be in Edit Mode. You can tell you're in Edit Mode because of the thin boxes around each editable area (generically called Widgets) and by the floating ToolBar, which looks like this:
We'll get to what each of these buttons do in future tutorials. For now, let's just take the ones you'll need right away. We'll do that by actually making some changes to the default content which was provided when the TurtolCMS initialized its database. The default is a three-column layout. Let's change that to a two-column layout, with navigation (eventually) in the right column. The TurtolCMS uses templates to make sure that every page you create shares your overall theme, navigation, and so forth. The root template is what determines the layout of your site, so let's edit the root template. But how to get to it?
We can find every addressable item on your website with the Map button in the toolbar. Addressable items are things you can get to directly with your browser. Web pages and images are the most common example. Paragraphs of text on a web page are NOT; you can only get to them in the larger context of the whole page. So click on Map and we'll get this:
The screenshot above is clipped for size, and you'll notice that the Root Template category has already been expanded. We want to edit the BasePageTemplate, so click on that.
