Where are so me WordPress websites?

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    5700words · Member ·

    I was reading “Using WordPress.com to Create a Website” and have several questions.

    Is there any place in this site where I can see websites made from WordPress blog templates?
    Are there any templates which lend themselves more to website creation?
    I have an Apple Mac website and next year none of the iWeb websites will be housed in the new location: The Cloud.
    Thus I have to find a new place to either port or re-build my website.

    And I want to see what WordPress websites look like.

    -L

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    timethief · Member ·

    From what I read above I think that you may think that “templates” distinguish blogs from websites but that’s simply not so. A blog is a website. A conventional blog have a post based structure. A blog that has been restructured to become a website has a page based structure, and usually but not always has a landing page ie. a static front page.

    5 Blog and Website Differences
    (1) The main difference between a blog and website is the communication style. A website has a noticeboard communication style. A blog is a website designed for interactive communication. Collectively blogs create the blogosphere, while websites are like stand-alone islands.

    (2) Blogs encourage conversation, websites do not and that’s why businesses with websites are adding blogs, and sometimes forums and wikis to them for complaint handling, customer feedback purposes and for collaborative purposes.

    (3) Blogs feature dynamic content and position it front and center. The entries have date and time stamps, and blog entries are customarily displayed on the front page in reverse chronological order. Most most websites do not have dynamic content on their front pages. Many websites have static front pages. The information most websites provide is static, rarely updated, and the sites are often poorly maintained.

    (4) Blogs have RSS feeds, websites ALONE do not.

    (5) Usually but not always, blogs rank higher in Google and as “freshness” is extremely important when it comes to content appearing in the SERPs (sreach engine page results).

    Any WordPress blog can either be structured as a page based website or its conventional post based structure can be retained. That’s why understanding the differences between posts and pages is key to decision making when selecting a theme, and setting up your WordPress.com blog. Better Blogging at WordPress.com: Pages and Posts

    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 ie. a landing 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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