Day 1 at Your New Business

Congratulations! You are taking steps towards success.

The first day at anything new can be a bit disorienting, so we’ve brought all the important ‘Day 1′ stuff into this one post.  Most of your day-to-day work is done in your Dashboard. The Dashboard is a kind of mission control center for your publishing business. First lets look at logging in to your Dashboard.

Login

When you signed up you created a Username and a Password. You should have also received a welcome email. Click the My Dashboard link from the email, or go to the bottom of any of your Mega Mall pages and click the Admin link. You will be taken to the Login page that looks something like this…

Enter your Username and Password and click the Login button.

After a successful login you will be taken to your Dashboard.  In every Dashboard there is a menu bar along the top that assists you in navigating around and getting your work done.

Your Home Page 

When you first start up, you have only one main page linked in your Mega Mall (and hundreds of sub pages). This is your HOME page. When someone visits your new web site, they see this HOME page first.  (More advanced users may want to change which page appears as their home page and you can do this later on if you like.)

Probably the most important thing about your home page is this:

Your home page is used to make copies for your new pages you create.

This means that you want to have something unique appearing on your home page right off the bat. So follow these steps to get some unique content on your home page:

1.) Click on the Pages button. This is where you work on pages.

2.) In the Mega Mall Page List click the Edit link for the Home page.

3. Edit the content in the Body Content editor.

You can type in as much as you want into this body area. The things you put here will appear in your home page as soon as you hit Save, so make sure to check over your work before saving. The nice thing is that it can easily be changed later.

Header Setup

The Header is the top part of your page. Some things in the header are visible to us humans while other things are hidden and seen by search engines. We have a special section called Header Section that lets us change this info to better match our topic.

Select the Header Section from the drop down selector at the top right of the page.

You will see the home page’s header items ready for editing. We have changed these to match our topic of the hobby store.

Once you have this basic information in your boxes, be sure to update the by clicking the Update Header Section button.

So now you have unique home page and have had a little experience with the Content Editor you are ready to create more pages and add more Affiliate Programs to your system. We’ll look closely at making a new page in the next step.

 Best wishes,

 DotStartUp