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Your Account
Big Medium allows multiple people to collaborate on a website and gives everyone on the web staff their own account with a specific set of access privileges.

Big Medium gives site administrators and webmasters detailed control over who can edit the website and what those people are allowed to do. Every Big Medium user signs in with their own user name and password, then selects which site to edit (the full version of Big Medium allows you to create and manage lots of websites on a single server).

For example, to edit this demo site with Big Medium, go to the following web address, and sign in with your user name and password:
http://demo.globalmoxie.com/bmadmin/

The five account levels

Every Big Medium account has one of five levels of access privileges to a specific set of websites in your Big Medium system. Account privileges are displayed at the top of the Big Medium control panel under "Status." Administrators and, to a lesser degree, webmasters can set or change account and site privileges for user accounts.

For this demo, you have been given a webmaster account. What does this mean, pray tell? Read on...

Administrators
Administrators have the run of the system, with complete control over all system settings, site settings and user accounts.

Webmasters
Webmasters have nearly as broad control as administrators, but their "webmaster powers" are limited only to specific sites. Webmaster privileges are for people who need broad control over the HTML and design of individual sites, beyond publishing and editing the website content.

Publishers
Publishers have complete control over the content of individual sites. They may add, edit, delete and publish content for those sites.

Editors
Editors can create, edit or delete any articles in sites for which they have privileges. However, editors cannot publish articles to the public website or edit articles that have already been published. An editor's role, in other words, is to prepare content for publication.

Writers
Writers are similar to editors, but they cannot edit other people's articles, only their own. Like editors, they can only prepare articles for publication and cannot publish articles to the public site.

Adding and editing accounts

All users can update their own account information by clicking the "My Account" link under "Account" in the left-column menu of the Big Medium control panel. Administrators and Webmasters can add a new account by clicking the "Add New User" link or edit an existing account by clicking the "Get User Info.".

Give it a try! Add a new account to your demo site by signing into Big Medium and clicking "Add New User" under "Account" in the Big Medium control panel.

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