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  anagilphotography · Member · Oct 3, 2011 at 3:11 pm

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  Hi,
  I am new to wordpress and a bit lost. I am a photographer and will like to use my blog to post recent sessions and talk briefly about them. I would like to have galleries as I see in other blogs, instead of lot of thumbnails showing.

  I would also like to have a menu on the top, for example, contact information, about me, my website, etc..

  How can I do this?

  Thanks!
  Ana

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  timethief · Member · Oct 3, 2011 at 5:27 pm

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  re: creating galleries

  A gallery will display a set of thumbnail images attached to a particular post or page. If you upload images using the Add an Image button while editing/creating the post or page, they will be attached automatically. If you upload images directly to the media library from Media -> Add New, you will need to attach them to a post or page before they will appear in a gallery. http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/gallery/

  See also > gammagirl- Not the Official WordPress.com Gallery FAQ

  re: creating a custom menu
  Staff have provided help for those who want to structure their blog like a website. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/

  What’s critical is:
  (1) a clear comprehension of the differences between pages and posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
  (2) a clear comprehension of the fact that there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. But we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.

  We organize our posts by assigning Categories to them. When we publish a post it automatically appears on the running page for posts and also on the Categories pages and Archives pages. Note: There must be one published post in each Category in order for there to be anything to display.

  A custom menu allows you to display Categories with drop-downs to sub-categories in tabs along the horizontal navigation where normally only Pages tabs are displayed. If you wish you can also include Pages with drop-downs to sub-pages and/or custom links in your custom menu as well. You are in charge of what appears in a custom menu. You choose the order in which to display any and/or all the foregoing in your custom menu. You choose which to display and which to hide. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus

  Also note that if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page for your site, and also create a “blog” page for your posts to display on, but that’s optional.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

  Set the Homepage

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  anagilphotography · Member · Oct 3, 2011 at 11:53 pm

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  Thank you!

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  timethief · Member · Oct 3, 2011 at 11:54 pm

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  You’re welcome. :)