What’s that "private area" stuff?

A SPIP-driven site is divided into two distinct parts:

-  the public site is made up of all the pages that are accessible to any visitor. These pages are articles, news items or sections you have published and are therefore displayed, as well as forum messages related to them. They’re also the files at the root of the SPIP install directory, and those that are in the IMG/ and NAVPICS/ directory.

-  the private area is the restricted-access space in which administrators and authors can write articles or news items, or modify the site structure, keep up with messages posted on the forums and so on. Getting to the private area requires registration, i.e. a login and a password. This area is accessible from the ecrire>/ directory in the SPIP installation — in fact this is the same address as is used when installing SPIP.