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+Discovering the web interface
+-----------------------------
+
+You can now access your web instance to create blogs and post messages
+by visiting the URL http://localhost:8080/.
+
+By default, anonymous access is disabled, so a login form will appear. If you
+asked to allow anonymous access when initailizing the instance, click on the
+'login' link in the top right hand corner. To login, you need then use the admin
+account you specified at the time you initialized the database with
+``cubicweb-ctl create``.
+
+.. image:: ../../images/tutos-base_login-form_en.png
+   :alt: the login form
+
+
+Once authenticated, you can start playing with your instance. The default index
+page looks like the following:
+
+.. image:: ../../images/tutos-base_index_en.png
+   :alt: the index page
+
+
+Minimal configuration
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Before creating entities, let's change that 'unset title' thing that appeared
+there and there. This is handled using |cubicweb| properties system. To set it,
+click on the 'site configuration link' in the pop-up menu behind your login name
+in the upper left-hand corner
+
+.. image:: ../../images/tutos-base_user-menu_en.png
+   :alt: the user pop-up menu
+
+The site title is in the 'Ui' section. Simply set it to the desired value and
+click the 'validate' button.
+
+.. image:: ../../images/tutos-base_siteconfig_en.png
+   :alt: the site configuration form
+
+You should see a 'changes applied' message appear. You can now go back to the
+index page by clicking on the |cubicweb| logo in the upper left-hand corner.
+
+You will much likely still see 'unset title' at this point. This is because by
+default the index page is cached. Force a refresh of the page (by typing Ctrl-R
+in firefox for instance) and you should now see the title you entered.
+
+
+Adding entities
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The ``blog`` cube defines several entity types, among them ``Blog`` which is a
+container for ``BlogEntry`` (e.g. post) on a particular topic. We can get a
+graphical view of the schema by clicking on the 'site schema' link in the user
+pop-up menu we've already seen:
+
+.. image:: ../../images/tutos-base_schema_en.png
+   :alt: graphical view of the schema (aka data-model)
+
+Nice isn't it? Notice that this, as most other stuff we'll see in this tutorial,
+is generated by the framework according to the model of the application. In our
+case, the model defined by the ``blog`` cube.
+
+Now let us create a few of these entities.
+
+
+Add a blog
+**********
+
+Clicking on the `[+]` at the left of the 'Blog' link on the index page will lead
+you to an HTML form to create a blog.
+
+.. image:: ../../images/tutos-base_blog-form_en.png
+   :alt: the blog creation form
+
+For instance, call this new blog 'Tech-blog' and type in 'everything about
+technology' as the description , then validate the form by clicking on
+'Validate'. You'll be redirected to the `primary` view of the newly created blog.
+
+.. image:: ../../images/tutos-base_blog-primary_en.png
+   :alt: the blog primary view
+
+
+Add a blog post
+***************
+
+There are several way to add a blog entry. The simplest is to click on the 'add
+blog entry' link in the actions box on viewing the blog we've juste created.
+You'll then see a form to create a post, with a 'blog entry of' selector preset
+to the blog we're coming from. Enter a title, some content, click the 'validate'
+button and you're done. You'll be redirected to the blog primary view, though you
+now see that it contains the blog post you've just created.
+
+.. image:: ../../images/tutos-base_blog-primary-after-post-creation_en.png
+   :alt: the blog primary view after creation of a post
+
+Notice there are some new boxes that appears in the left column.
+
+You can achieve the same thing by following the same path as we did for the blog
+creation, e.g. by clicking on the `[+]` at the left of the 'Blog entry' link on
+the index page. The diffence being that since there is now context information,
+the 'blog entry of' selector won't be preset to the blog.
+
+
+If you click on the 'modify' link of the action box, you are back to the form to
+edit the entity you just created, except that the form now has another section
+with a combo-box entitled 'add relation'. It provices a generic way to edit
+relations which don't appears in the above form. Choose the relation you want to
+add and a second combobox appears where you can pick existing entities.  If there
+are too much of them, you'll be proposed to navigate (so go away from the form to
+go back to it later, once you've selected the entity you want to link with).
+
+.. image:: ../../images/tutos-base_form-generic-relations_en.png
+   :alt: the generic relations combobox
+
+This combobox can't appear until the entity is actually created. That's why you
+haven't seen it at creation time. You could also have hit 'Apply' instead of
+'validate' and it would have showed up.
+
+
+About ui auto-adaptation
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+One thing among other that makes |cubicweb| different than other framework is
+its automatic user interface that adapts itself according to the data being
+displayed. Let's see an example.
+
+If you go back to the home page an click on the 'Blog' link, you'll be redirected
+to the primary view of the blog, the same we've seen earlier. Now, add another
+blog, go back to the index page, and click again on this link. You'll see
+a very different view (namely the 'list' view).
+
+.. image:: ../../images/tutos-base_blogs-list_en.png
+   :alt: the list view when there are more than one blog to display
+
+This is because in the first case, the framework choosed to use the 'primary'
+view since there were only one entity in the data to be displayed. Now that there
+are two entities, the 'list' view is more appropriate and hence has been used.
+
+There are various other places where it's able to adapt to display data in the best
+way, the main being provided by views *selection* mecanism that will be detailled
+later.
+
+
+Digging deeper
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+By following principles explained below, you should now be able to create new
+user to your application, to configure with a finer grain, etc... You'll notice
+that the index page list a lot of types you don't know about. Most are built-in
+type provided by the framework to make work the whole system. You may ignore them
+in a first time and discover them as time goes.
+
+One thing that is worth playing with is the search box. It may be used in various
+way, from simple full text search to advanced queries using the :ref:`RQL` .
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