how to have a blank home page with nothing but a centered picture

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  billfisch · Member · Dec 24, 2007 at 2:19 am

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  like the title says.

  almost like thehundreds.com

  where the picture links you to the posts page.
  with nothing but the picture on the home page.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 24, 2007 at 2:26 am

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  This will do what you want from the FAQ’s: http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/having-a-static-page-at-the-front-of-the-blog/

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  billfisch · Member · Dec 24, 2007 at 3:01 am

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  i tried this but i still had the template with the header and links.

  is there anyway to have a blank white page with nothing but an uploaded picture?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 24, 2007 at 3:05 am

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  You cannot have a completely blank page, it will always have the sidebar, header and such. To have a completely blank page, you would have to be self-hosted with the wordpress.org software and then hack the theme files (php and html) and the CSS (custom style-sheet).

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 24, 2007 at 3:06 am

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  Sorry, I kind of misunderstood.

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  raincares · Member · Dec 24, 2007 at 5:42 am

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  If you are not hosted in wordpress.com and have your own site, what your example site did is created an index.html first. It contained this code:
  <div align="center"><a href="http://www.thehundreds.com/wordpress/"><img src="images/splash/thehundreds_censorship.jpg" /></a></div>

  Basically, what that did for them is have a start page that if you click the image in, it would lead you to their wordpress blog. As you have probably observed, they have installed their wordpress blog on http://www.thehundreds.com/wordpress/