New to wordpress
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I am trying to rebuild my site that I had previously built on iweb (no longer supported by apple). I am starting from scratch and am a little overwhelmed. It is a not a blog. It is a site to give information on myself as an actor: an online resume of sorts. I will needed to include head shots, promotional shots, project updates, video/voiceover reels and other links to find me along with contact information. It will not necessarily be updated on a weekly or monthly basis so a blog is not really the format I am looking for. Please advise.
Also, I already have a domain name that is hosted through godaddy. How will this change if I build me website through wordpress?
Ketryn PorterThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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so a blog is not really the format I am looking for.
A blog is a website. The difference between blog and website is simply structure and semantics.
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, and as others do not backlink to pages, 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/
See also:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-blog-setup/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-website-setup/
and my post at https://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/Also, note your detailed blog description page has set-up instructions.
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I believe you may want to choose a different theme ie. a portfolio theme
You can browse free portfolio themes here https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/features/portfolio+responsive-layout/?sort=free
See also:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/portfolios/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/portfolios/portfolio-shortcode/re: switching themes on a wordpress.com hosted site
Themes are just “skins” on WordPress.COM hosted blogs. You can quickly and easily change themes on any WordPress.COM hosted blog to another one found here http://wordpress.com/themes/ and no data will be lost or negatively affected by the change. The only time you may have to do a lot of work is if you are changing to a dramatically different theme with different features and/or if you have done any CSS editing.
Provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the blog go to Dashboard > Appearance > Themes, Browse themes until you find one you like and click the “activate” or the “preview” link, or type in the name of the theme you want to use when it appears.
The theme customizer https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/ provides a preview function for exactly that purpose ie. so you can view what a theme will appear like prior to changing one.
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