A website, not just a blog

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  sjgleah · Member · Aug 21, 2009 at 12:34 am

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  Hello,

  On the “Features You’ll Love” page at wordpress.com it says “You can even create an entire web site using pages on WordPress.com, with a custom home page and your blog as one of the sub-pages.”

  Please explain what is meant by a custom home page, and tell me how to do this.

  Thanks,

  Steve

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  gardenmakersnw · Member · Aug 21, 2009 at 12:40 am

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  Great question…..that is why I came here!

  Scott.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 21, 2009 at 1:05 am

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  You can create a static front page for your blog: http://support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ . If you want, you can also create a blog or post page for blog posts if you wish.

  You then add additional pages as required and put your static web content on those. If the theme you choose has top navigation tabs, then your pages will appear in there. If the theme you choose does not have top navigation tabs, add the pages widget to your sidebar.

  Do note that wordpress will not “ping” search engines when you publish new pages to let them know you have new content. You will have to do that your self manually at somewhere like http://pingomatic.com/ .

  WordPress will ping all major search engines when you publish new posts though.

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  sjgleah · Member · Aug 21, 2009 at 4:12 am

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  thesacredpath………. thanks very much for your help……….sjg

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 21, 2009 at 5:27 am

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  You’re welcome.