Domain mapping, simply put, is deciding where visitors should be directed when they visit various pieces of your website. Domains and subdomains can be mapped directly to folders located within your webhosting account, where you may have installed WordPress, Omeka, MediaWiki, or other web applications. Domains and subdomains can also be mapped to some third-party providers.
Mapping your domain reinforces the idea that you don’t necessarily need to host all your own applications. For example, you can create a website on SquareSpace, and map it to a digitalscholarship.brown.edu subdomain. You should, however, be aware that you have no more control over the SquareSpace platform than you did before. It might, however, be useful if you want to unify and gather your work in one place. If you would like to map a subdomain and have not yet created it, use this tutorial on creating subdomains before proceeding.
