Your Modern Control Center

1. Sign in securely

Open /backend in your browser and enter the administrator credentials you received from your developer. If you forget your password, use the “Forgot Password” link—CI4MS will email you a secure reset link.

2. Personalize your profile

Click your avatar in the top-right corner to update your display name, profile picture, and password. Keeping this information current helps your team identify who changed what.

3. Review dashboard insights

The dashboard highlights page and blog counts, latest activity, and quick links. Use it to understand site health at a glance.

4. Pin critical modules

Use the sidebar to favorite modules you rely on most—Pages, Blog, Menu, Media, Settings, Backup—so they always stay within one click.

Publish a page

1. Navigate to Pages and choose “Create”.
2. Write your content with the rich text editor or paste HTML snippets.
3. Add SEO metadata (title, description, keywords) and optional cover imagery.
4. Toggle visibility to “Published” and click Save.

Tips: Use keywords to improve discoverability, and attach the page to menus if it should appear in navigation.

Share news and updates

1. Select Blog ▸ Create.
2. Add your article content, hero image, optional gallery, and author.
3. Assign categories and tags to keep things organized.
4. Schedule the publish date or click Publish now.

Comments arrive in moderation by default—approve or reply within the Comments tab.

Curate navigation

1. Head to Menu to view the drag-and-drop tree.
2. Use Add to insert pages, blogs, or external links.
3. Drag items to reorder or nest under parents.
4. Click Save structure to publish changes instantly.

Nested items automatically render as dropdowns on the front-end.

Manage media intelligently

1. Open Media for the file manager.
2. Upload images, videos, or documents (WebP conversion is automatic when enabled).
3. Copy URLs or drag files directly into the editor.
4. Use the trash bin for safe cleanup—restore if needed.

Check your notifications

1. Look at the bell in the admin header—a badge shows how many notifications you have not read yet.
2. Click it to open the dropdown with your ten most recent notifications.
3. Click a notification to jump to the page it refers to, or use Mark as read to clear just that one.
4. Use Mark all as read to empty the badge in one go, or View all to open the full list.

The bell refreshes itself about once a minute. If your administrator has switched on realtime delivery, new notifications appear almost immediately instead.

Browse the full list

• The list page shows up to fifty of your most recent notifications, newest first.
• Each entry carries a severity: Info, Warning, or Critical—shown with its own icon and colour.
• Reading a notification is one-way; there is no “mark as unread”.
• Buttons on this page take you to your notification preferences and to the send screen.

You only ever see notifications addressed to everyone, to you personally, or to a group you belong to.

Choose what you receive

1. Open Notification preferences from the notification list page.
2. Tick Muted next to any notification type you do not want to receive.
3. Click Save preferences.

Muting only affects your own account—nobody else is changed. Notifications marked Critical are always delivered and cannot be muted, on purpose.

Announce something to the team

1. Open Send notification from the notification list page.
2. Fill in the Title, the Message, an optional Link, and a Severity.
3. Pick the Audience: Everyone, or Selected users and groups—you may choose several of each together. Anyone you add to Excluded users never receives it.
4. Click Preview recipients to see an estimated headcount, then Send notification.

Two things to expect: the link must be a path on this site starting with / (external addresses are rejected), and the notification is always recorded as sent by your own account.

This screen carries its own permission. The button is shown to everyone, so if opening it returns an access error, ask your administrator to grant it—being able to send from here means being able to reach every administrator in the installation.