This website provides you with a selection of pre-defined capabilities selected by the package you ordered, as well as a general framework that allows you to easily and quickly customize the look and feel of the website and add your own additional pages and content.

You can first navigate around the site to become familiar with it contents, then take your first step in customizing your website: login into your administrative user account provided in your signup confirmation e-mail.  You will then see a link appear in the upper right corner for access the site administration area.

Once you have entered the site administration area, you can customize the colors, graphics, navigation, content, and security of your website through a collection of simple administrative pages accessed via a left-pane list of available administrative sections.

Your new website has two basic navigation areas:

• The 'main' horizontal navigation bar containing 'tabs' that are linked to templates or other HTML and scripting pages in the site.  The main navigation bar can also contain 'sub-nav' links under any main navigation tab.
• The 'upper right' navigation links displayed in the right corner of the website header.

Each page of your website activated by a navigation link contains three 'panes': left, center, and right, with each configured to it's own scripting/HTML file or URL link.  You can configure any page to appear in either of the two navigational areas via the "page navigation" link in the site admin, as well as the order that the links appear.  You can also 'edit' any page to modify it's name, behavior, and it's linkage to other WebDNA, HTML, or other scripting files for the left, center, and right panes of the page.  If you purchased a package providing the eCommerce features, a third navigation area is typically set up in the left pane of each page made up of the product catalog.  Since this is a configured navigation element tied to a specific Product List template, this can be deleted or modified to only appear on a select set of pages.

Security for your website is determined by performing four steps in the administrative section.  Note that the absence of any applied group security settings means there is no security on that page or content and access is 'public':

1. Set up the user 'groups' that need to have distinct access privileges to selected content and page navigation.
2. Assign user accounts as belonging to one or more groups.
3. Set the page navigation security by editing each page you wish to add secure access (using the "Page Navigation" link, and selecting the page to edit from the table, and selecting the groups that are permitted access to that page.
4. Set the content category security by editing the 'categories' in each content area, e.g., Photos, Documents, Calendar, etc., to define which groups are permitted access to any content assigned to that category.
5. Note: Secured page navigation and content categories will not be visible to anyone not logged into an appropriate group membership.  Searches will find secured content, but will not display any information, but instead just identify the number of 'hits' the search found in secured content and advise the user to login in order to view them.

Your administrative section of the website is divided into the following 'sections':

• Users: set up groups for security settings and manage user accounts
• Site Appearance: change the site name, colors, graphics, layout settings, size, navigation, and search behavior of your site.
• Content: manage the categories and actual content of built-in features such as Calendar, Documents, Links, Photo Album, etc.
• If your package includes eCommerce features, the following additional administrative sections will appear:
  • Products: if your package includes eCommerce features, this is where you manage product categories, the product catalog, and product options such as sizes, colors, etc.
  • Transaction Settings: if your package includes eCommerce features, this is where you manage payment processors settings, shipping methods, e-mail confirmation settings, etc.
  • Tax Rates: define tax rates by state and/or zipcode.