What you are looking at is my third attempt with the Word Press.  I’ve spent a goodly portion of my working life learning office software.  Out of the thirty-some years as a legal secretary, easily 15 of them have been temp assignments at assorted law firms.  (Another time I will wax poetic over the unhappy psychology that has given rise to this circumstance.)  All these firms do their own thing, software-wise, and so I have been a great intuitor of office software, until now.  The WordPress has been a great trial to me.

First, intuiting did not work.  I picked the theme.  I went to work.  Well, some of those theme pieces you can edit on the page, and some you can’t.  And my attempts to find my way into these more complex pieces was a failure, though I did have a Home Page, of sorts.

My second attempt was to follow along with a WordPress Video Tutorial.  Well, it worked.  Sort of.  I mean, they wanted you to use this particular template … and it was ugly.  I have a vision. And now I have a Home Page that sort of conforms to my vision, and two new pages that do not.  However shall I integrate the two?

So then, I get “WordPress for Dummies”.  Unhappily, the book is geared to people who are downloading the software onto PCs of their own and managing the site themselves.  These are “.org” people.  I am a “.com” person.  I use the PC at the library, and WordPress is hosting my site.  Picking out the stuff that is useful to me is taking some time, while I skim through the travails afflicting your true entrepreneur … which is making me even more cranky than I was after attempts one and two.

However, I have now gleaned an idea of what it takes to make a consistently themed website.  I deleted all my work.  I started over.  You’re looking at the results.  I envision many tweaks, but the fundamentals are in place, and they work.  Congratulate me.