A process for rendering a user interface for editing content of a content management system (CMS), includes: providing, over a network through a browser of a client device the user interface, the user interface is configured for editing a content page in the CMS; presenting a graphical tree view in the user interface that presents content components, wherein the graphical tree view of the content page provides a parallel structure to content presentation of a website page that implements API calls to the CMS for accessing content edited for the content page; and presenting an editing view in the user interface responsive to selection of one of said plurality of content components from the graphical tree view; wherein the editing view presented maintains a correlation to a relationship position of the selected content component in the logical hierarchy defined for the content page.