How to create a web site?
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I am just trying to figure out how to edit a wordpress web site that someone else created. I need to add photos, add text boxes, add all sorts of things. This is NOT a blog, it’s supposed to be a web site. And I’ve tried adding pages but don’t see a button for add once I’ve created the page. So I tried creating my own web site just to figure out how to do it. anarchist mountain.com. You can see that I created several pages but can’t figure out how to get them to adhere to the web page. I just want to open a page, add photos, add other things like slide shows but can’t find those elements to use. Is this just not the right web creation tool because it is more for blogs than web sites?
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I think it’s best to start by reading this comparison. http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/ Provided you bread it carefully you will then know what the limitations and restrictions are when it comes to WordPress.COM blogging on a multiuser blogging platform as opposed to hiring a web host and blogging on a free standing WordPress.ORG install.
A blog is a website. 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/
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edit: bread = read
Please read this first Post vs. Page http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
(1) There is only one page we can post to in any blog.
(2) The static pages http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ we bloggers create do not automatically update.Only the dynamic pages like Archives, Categories and Tags created by the software when we publish a post will update automatically update with new posts.
By default the front page of the blog is the Page that displays all posts in your blog. You can create a static front page and have your published posts display on another page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ but doing that does not change what follows.
Though there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts (not pages) http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ and we cannot post to more than that one page, we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.
Setting up a menu is easy as pie, provided you know the differences between Posts and Pages, and the differences between static Pages, (which will never automatically update) and dynamic Categories pages which will automatically update when you publish Posts with Categories assigned to them.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/Read this carefully http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/posts-on-pages/
There are many common errors, misunderstandings and misconceptions when creating custom menus and there are some tweaks you can use to improve your custom menu as well.
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