The Drupal 8 user interface
In this chapter, we will walk you through the key parts of the standard Drupal 8 User Interface (UI) UI focusing our attention on the main visible components like the Toolbar, Shortcuts and Drupal's main administrative menu, the Administration menu.
As you work through this chapter, please keep in mind that the intention here is merely to provide you with a quick overview and that much more detail and guided tutorial assignments will follow in later chapters.
Logging out
When you first visit your new Drupal 8 site immediately after installation at: http://drupal-8.dd:8083
you will do so, from the point of view of the admin
user, that is, you are logged in as the special user with user ID (uid
) set to 1.
To see the site from an anonymous site visitor's perspective, click on the Log out link at the top right of the page:
Logging in
You will now see only the login link at the top right corner of the page:
Log back in using the credentials you set up in Chapter...