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You still need to add the module to your main links:

1. Log in to CMS.
2. Click the [Main Preferences] button at the top of the page.
3. Scroll down to the section titled "Main Links". You will see two rectangular boxes with four buttons in between them.
4. The box on the right shows you the modules you have installed. The box on the left shows you the modules that are set as Main Links.
5. Highlight modules from the box on the right, and click the "Add" button to move them into the box on the left. Once you add the modules you want as links, you can use the "Move Up" and "Move Down" button to rearrange them.
6. Click the [Set Preferences] button to make the settings take effect.

You have to have at least one module installed before you can set the home page. After you have installed one or more modules:

1. Log into CMS
2. Click the [Main Preferences] button at the top of the page.
3. The first option in the Main Preferences shows you the list of modules which you may set as your home page. Select the one you want.
4. Click the [Submit] or [Set Preferences] button to save your choice

1. Log into CMS.
2. Click [Main Preferences] button at the top of your page.
3. Enter the text for your heading the box labeled "Site Heading".
4. Click [Set Preferences].

1. Go to [Manage Designs].
2. Click [edit] next to the appropriate listed design.
3. Browse for photo at top to select a default photo that will appear on every page or click "Show per-module photo upload fields" and select photos to only appear on certain modules.
4. Click [Submit Query].

1. Download a design from our design page or your web designer's website. It will be a .karma file. Don't try to open or extract the file; just save it to your Desktop.
2. Go to your CMS and click the purple [Manage Designs] button at the top.
3. Click the yellow "Add New Design" button.
4. Upload the design you saved to your Desktop. Be sure to give it a title so you can identify it later.
5. Wait for the design to upload and you will see it in your list of installed designs.
6. Click [Preview] next to the design you uploaded to make sure your site looks ok.
7. To make this your default design that everyone else sees, go into the Main Preferences and open up the first option, "Site Design".

Note: You should uninstall old designs that you are no longer using, as each design adds a small additional charge to your monthly hosting bill.

1. Log into CMS.
2. Click the purple [Manage Designs] button at the top of the page.
3. Click [Edit] next to the design for which you will be changing photos (each design takes a different set of photos).
4. On the following page, you will see a place to upload your Main Photo.
5. To upload alternate photos for each module, click the link in the second section that says "Click here to upload different photos for each module of your site."

Note: Photos must be under 500kB in size. If your photos are too big, then you should resize them to get them under 500kB — preferably 100-200kB max.

Do not reduce the quality of your photos in an attempt to make them smaller. Instead, you should resize (i.e. scale) the physicial dimensions of the photo so that is a maximum of 600x600 pixels in either direction in order to reduce the size.

All changes made in KarmaCMS take place immediately, so if don't see something update right away, be sure to refresh your page. If you still don't see your don't see your changes, then it is usually due to your browser caching the page. Try clearing your browser cache and that should force the browser to get the update page from the server.

1. Log into CMS.
2. Select [Preferences] of the module you'd like to change the name of in the main links or page heading.
3. Click the [web page preferences] button at the top of the page.
4. In the box labeled "Main Menu Text" or "Page Heading" enter the desired text.
5. Click [Set Preferences].

If you just created your site, it can take months before your site starts to appear in search engines, and many months more before you start ranking high.

Search engines have literally billions of pages on the web to sort through, and there are thousands of new sites coming online every day. Waiting for a search engine to find your site can be a slow process, especially if there are not a lot of other websites linking to your new site. (This is the way search engines find your site — by other sites linking to your site.)

You can speed the process up a little by submitting your site to the search engines (click here to submit to Google), but don't expect fast results. No matter what you do, it's probably going to be several weeks to a month before your site is shows up.

If you are interested in learning how to optimize your site for higher search engine rankings, see this guide.

A teaser is a little block of content that goes around the perimeter of your site, like "featured album", "upcoming shows", or "join the mailing list". All of our demo sites have teasers, so take a look at them for examples of teasers in action.