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Let’s take a step-by-step tour through your WordPress site and see how the different functions work and how to make your new site your own. During the first part of this tutorial, please unless it is part of the tutorial. After following these steps, you’ll soon be changing everything.

The of your site is typically the first thing people see. From this masthead or across the top of your page, people make sweeping judgements about what they are about to see and read. The same people who say you can not judge a book by its cover, also say that you only have 30 seconds to make a good impression. In the world of the Internet where the next web page is a click away, you have much less than that.

Excerpts (teasers) can be shown on WordPress through two methods:

To see what your WordPress site looks like for printing, print out a page or, from your browser's menu, choose . Not very pretty, is it? And fairly wasteful of paper having that long list of sidebar blogroll links printing out over two pages.

In the that come with your WordPress installation, all use a to hold most of the site's navigation links. Other Themes may use navigational aids in the and footer. While these navigation links can be displayed in any , typically, the navigation links include:

The placement of your categories tag may be in one place on the front page and in one or more different places in your single post page, so you may have to do some hunting to find your various categories tags. You might also want to style one differently from the others, but you still have to find them.

WordPress was created by the as or software. A , as defined in the , is an online journal, diary, or serial, published by a person or group of people. Many are personal in nature, reflecting the opinions and interests of the owner. But, are now important tools in the world of news, business, politics, and entertainment.

The following are some of the best books to help you learn more about CSS and web page design.

When WordPress documentation says "This tag must be within The Loop", such as for specific or plugins, the tag will be repeated for each post. For example, The Loop displays the following information by default for each post:

In order to take advantage of these new CSS classes for image alignment and the text wrapping around the image, the WordPress Theme must include the following in the found in the WordPress Theme directory.

Comments allow your website's visitors to have a discussion with you and each other. When you activate comments on a Page or post, WordPress inserts several text boxes after your content where users can submit their comments. Once you approve a comment, it appears underneath your content. Whether you want to customize how your receive comments or tweak how your site displays comments, WordPress provides a thorough set of options to build a community from the visitors to your site.

After you log in to WordPress and click on the menu at the top of the screen, you can upload files with the Flash uploader.

There are two ways to make internal links from one content page to another in WordPress. One uses permalinks and one does not. The method that does not use permalinks works regardless of whether permalinks are enabled for your site.

Begin by carefully examining a generated page (or test page) and look for some identifying text in the sidebar, near the errant border. Let's say that listed in the sidebar, you have a post title called "All About Harry". You know you'll find that title in your sidebar when you view the page's source code.

Horizontal menus are created with the HTML List feature. Yes, while they are horizontal instead of vertical, like typical lists, they are still a list. CSS presentation styles allow us to set the list to run on one line instead of a separate line for each list item.