How do I do a website without a blog?

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  dababe44 · Member · Jan 10, 2015 at 5:06 pm

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  I don’t want to blog I just want a website

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  dababe44 · Member · Jan 10, 2015 at 5:07 pm

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  Hi….I joined in order to set up a free, simple website but I can’t seem to find out how to do anything other than a blog which I am not interested in. How do I set up a website only ?

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  timethief · Member · Jan 10, 2015 at 5:11 pm

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  Hi there,

  Every day we get new people who do not understand that a blog is a website posting here. This is all semantics and blog structure.

  A blog is a post based website designed for interactive communication. As the posts are frequently updated and appear on the front page of the site it’s very attractive to search engines.

  What most people call a website is merely a page based site that functions as a one way noticeboard. As the structure is page based and as pages are for static content that rarely changes, and as pages do not have RSS feeds it is not as attractive to search engines as a post based blog structured site is.

  Any WordPress blog can be restructured from being post based to being page based – no upgrade required. For greater clarity read > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/

  Below are some helpful links for getting started

  re: front page error message

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  It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for. Perhaps searching can help.

  Your site has not disappeared and there is nothing wrong with it. By default the front page of the blog is the only page that will display all published posts on it. As soon as you publish a post not a page the error message that appears on every new WordPress.COM blog will be gone. http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  For creating a post see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/#publish-a-new-post
  For creating a page see here
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/#create-a-new-page

  For editing see:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/

  On the bottom of your Admin page you will find a link to the step by step Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. http://learn.wordpress.com/

  See also the “Video Quick Start” tutorial http://en.support.wordpress.com/video-quick-start/

  The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also on the bottom of your Admin page.