Toucan CMS™ Help
Toucan CMS™ is the content management system (CMS) which allows you to edit the content of your website. This guide will explain how you can use it to edit and manage your website’s content.
Logging in to Toucan CMS™
To log in to Toucan CMS™, you will need to open an Internet browser window (for example, Internet Explorer, Firefox or Opera). Go to your website’s address (for the purpose of this guide, we’ll assume we’re editing content on www.example.com). This is known as the ‘front end’ of your website, and is what your website’s visitors will see when they visit it.
You can edit your website through the 'back end' (Toucan CMS), accessible through the link we'll email to you once your website is complete. Here, you will need to enter the username and password we supplied you with when your website was completed in the text boxes indicated. Now click 'log in'; you should be taken to a screen similar to that below.
There are links in the top right of your screen to Peacock Carter’s support web pages, your emails, and your account preferences (which are disabled by default).
The website overview shows you recently edited pages on your website, as well as statistics for your website, including the most popular page on your web, and recently viewed pages.
Along the right-hand side, options to create and view the major elements of your website - pages, sections, secondary content and menus - are given.
More Help & Support
If you need any more help with editing your website or with Toucan CMS™, you can call Peacock Carter on 0871 315 4697. Calls to this number cost around 10 pence per minute from a landline.
Toucan CMS: Sections, Pages & Content
Content on your website is organised in to three areas with Toucan CMS:
Menus are also used to structure the navigational links in your website.
A section is a category for pages on your website. For example, a website may have 'home', 'about', 'services' and 'contact’ sections. Sections can have multiple pages in them: the 'services' section may contain the 'main' services page, which is an overview of your services, as well as more details on 'service 1' and 'service 2'.
Pages are the individual 'web pages' that you’ll see on your website, and, depending on your website’s design, there may also be secondary content on some of your web pages. This secondary content is generally displayed to one side of your website’s main content (although this depends on your website’s design).
