weblines

If you have been following these posts, you'll have seen that my home page has looked rather fragmented for a day.  I have been experimenting with the layout:-  copying a theme and then modifying it for my own use creating a new home page template, based on the index page but modified creating a new footer creating a new post template, called post1, which will show on the home page only In fact, it was errors in the new home and post1 templates which have caused the fragmented look.   I made my first set of changes and uploaded them with a reasonable degree of (misplaced!) confidence and no time to test and fix. So, we have now swapped back to the original index page and now I will work through things slowly, so that I catch any errors I introduce....

Reading lots of the WordPress lessons and finding out how to do a few things as I go.  I've now made my Links page work by use of templates, enabled inclusion of email address without typing it in and discovered how to split a post.

If you've been following this progress, you'll have seen that I have been changing the "theme" of the website frequently.  This is to try out different looks and see how easy it is decide which theme is the most comprehensive to use as a basis for my "typical" website I've been working through ...

Next I want to make the pages look a little more like a typical website and less like a blog.  To do this, I first need to find my way around WordPress a bit more. I want to get rid of Comments as a general rule.  Go into Options...Discussion... and set ...

Here's what I needed to start with:- Domain name and hosting. Well, that's easy, hosting is with my usual host icdsoft.com (great value, all the features and space small organisations might need at a great price), who can also register a domain name for you.  For country level domain ...