Get Started

Building a great website does take some time and there can be a lot to learn right away. Learn a little bit about websites in general and how it all works, then get started creating pages, adding content and putting your personal touch on your Cadenza website.

Website Basics

You probably use the Internet every day and have visited possibly hundreds of websites. But have you ever wondered just how it all works? Most people have a general understanding, but the technical details usually don’t matter, as long as you can find the information you want, whether its instructional, informative or just entertaining. But as a site owner and…

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What Happens Next

The following page is the same one you saw when you completed sign-up process and summarizes what you can expect to happen next, and how you can get started building your new Cadenza website. After you receive your invitation to login as the Administrator of your new site, you’ll want to take a look at the Getting Started with Cadenza…

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Getting Started with Cadenza

When you first login and take a look at your Admin Dashboard, it can be a little overwhelming, especially if you don’t have any previous experience using WordPress or any other Content Management System (CMS). Cadenza is packed with features and you have a lot of control over how your Cadenza website looks and works, so there are a lot…

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Getting a Domain Name

Domain Registrars Domain names are purchased from a domain reseller known as a Domain Registrar. A Domain Registrar accepts payment for registering your domain name with ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ICANN is the official database for all domain names, and your registrar takes care of adding your domain to this registry when you purchase it…

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Managing your Domain

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Web Page Basics

This section will provide you with a very basic overview of how a web page is constructed, a little about what’s going on behind the scenes and how you can manage your content through Cadenza. By having some understanding of how a web page works, you’ll have a better understanding of how to write content and add images or how…

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Cascading Styles

You may be familiar with, or heard of the term “Cascading Style Sheets” or “CSS”. Web pages are styled (fonts, colors, spacing, positioning or other variables) with CSS rules – something as simple as: “font-family: Arial”, or “color: red” – but can also be much more complex to include positioning and even animations and special effects. The “cascading” part of…

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Using Your Domain for Cadenza

If you have your own domain name, a website that you have had for a while, or are planning to purchase a new domain name, then you may use your domain name for your Cadenza website. When you sign up for Cadenza, you’re assigned a “subdomain” on the Cadenza.Works network, something like: mycoolmusicsite.cadenza.works. If you own the domain, mycoolmusicsite.org, then…

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Mapping Your Domain to Cadenza

If you have an existing website and own a domain name, or if you are planning to purchase a new domain name, then you can”map” your domain name to your Cadenza website. Mapping just means that visitors will just use your own domain name to access your Cadenza website. In order to map your domain to Cadenza you must have…

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