Contributing to the site
This FAQ item provides guidance on administrator access to the site and some of the things you might want to do via that access. It would be expected that this would only be undertaken by a very small number of careful users.
Most functions done by site contributors can be undertaken on the live site when a suitably permissioned user is logged in - for example contributing and editing articles, and adding and editing events.
However there is a large range of additional functions that can only be undertaken on the administrator part of the site. This FAQ provides guidance for some of these functions: