The Control Panel is the first page you see when you log into the Administrators area. At anytime, you can return to it by clicking the "Home" menu item in the top menu bar. 

Control Panel. has two states: Simple and Advanced. In Simple state, displays only 4 shortcut icons; Advanced state, displays 11 shortcut icons

From the Control Panel you can have easy access to the frequently used parts of the Administrator area.

Control Panel Icons:

• Help: Click this icon to view an index of the locally available Help Screens. You can also have access to special help screens by pressing the help icon, found on the right top corner of each screen.All Content Items: Click this icon to access the All Content Items screen.  All Content Items, lists all of your Content Items. Clicking on a Content Item, you can edit it.Static Content Manager: Click this icon to access the Static Content Manager. You will be able to edit these type of  items.
• Frontpage: Click this icon to access the Front Page Manager. You will be able to edit Content items that appear on your Frontpage.
• Sections: Click this icon to access the Section Manager. You will be able to edit your Sections.
• Categories: Click this icon to access the Category Manager. You will be able to edit your Categories.
• Media: Click this icon to access the Media Manager. Tou will be able to administer your media files.
• Trash: Click this icon to access the Trash manager. You will be able to delete permanently or to restore any items in the Trash Manager.
• Menus: Click this icon to access the Menu Manager. You will be able  to  edit any of your menus. 
• Users: Click this icon to access the Users Manager. You will be able  to add, remove, administer users of your site.  Global Configuration: Click this icon to access the Global configuration. You will be able to edit any of your web site configurations.

On the right side of the screen there are five tabs:

• Logged: This displays a list of users currently logged on (both in the Admin and the Frontend sections). Click a users' name to go to the User Edit page for that user.
• Components: Click this shortcut tab to access any of the components and component links that you wish to edit.
• Popular: Click this tab to access the screen which lists in order, the most popular Content Items on your site. This includes the date the Content Item was created and the number of hits. Click the Content Item name to edit that item.
• Latest Items: Click this tab to access the screen which lists the most recently added Content Items. This includes the creation date and the author. Click the Content item name to edit that item.
• Menu Stats: Click this tab to access the screen which lists all menus and the number of item links in each menu.  The number of links is the total created, not the total published. Click the name of a menu to access the screen which lists the items for that menu.