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I’m in the final stages of selecting a web designer and one of my questions was “What CMS systems can you work with?”. The company at the top of my shortlist gave me all the usual open source answers but also said that Expression Engine is the “rolls royce of CMS systems” and they like it so much that, if I select EE, then they pay half the cost. That’s quite an endorsement of your product so of course I’ve been doing some investigating and I’d be very grateful if you could answer a couple of very simple questions for me.

1) The one thing I hate about EE is the way that it still shows its initial heritage by calling the basic content data objects “weblogs”. I have heard however that this term can be renamed so my question here is simply, is this something that I need to request that my designer does at the start of creating my website or is it something that I can go in and do at any point after I take delivery of my completed site. I’m guessing this is just a label in the user interface (control panel) so I can change it as a personal setting at any time but I thought I’d best check this just to be on the safe side because it will annoy me.

2) This is lazy I know but, to save me some searching, are there any sections of the documentation or other articles anywhere that describe the EE user interface specifically from the point of view of an end user who has taken delivery of a web site developed by a designer and who is using EE simply to update the site content? If not then it’s no big deal but it would just be a bit more convenient to read a document specifically targeted at my intended use.

- Julian

1) The one thing I hate about EE is the way that it still shows its initial heritage by calling the basic content data objects “weblogs”.

You’ll be happy to learn, then, that the upcoming EE 2.0 will change that to “channel”. That said, yes, you can rename weblog to whatever you want, basically.

I’m guessing this is just a label in the user interface (control panel) so I can change it as a personal setting at any time but I thought I’d best check this just to be on the safe side because it will annoy me.

Yes, that change is a simple configuration option and can be done (or changed) at any time, including after the initial development.

Are there any sections of the documentation or other articles anywhere that describe the EE user interface specifically from the point of view of an end user who has taken delivery of a web site developed by a designer and who is using EE simply to update the site content?

Not really. Very much will depend on how the site is setup for you. Your developer can create “Edit” links, work with the Stand Alone Entry Form and generally modify the Control Panel so that you get to see very little of it. Or they can rely on the default CP, in which case the docs are a very good source of information.

Hi Julian - welcome to the forum!

As Ingmar said, the developer can customize what you see and how you perform actions, but if you end up using the full Control Panel (either now or in the future) then you can see it in the CP demo here:

http://expressionengine.com/sales/try/

or in the screenshots in the documentation of the Control Panel. =)