If you are not already there go to your dashboard. If you don’t know how see Part 1 – Log In
Now that you have your username and profile set up, its time to start setting up your actual website. The first thing that you need to do is choose some basic settings.
If you haven’t already log in to your website and go to the dashboard.
1. Eleven options down on the left menu you should see “Settings”, click on this option.
2. You now have a page entitled “General Settings” here you can change the title of your Blog, the tagline, the default website email address, the timezone, as well as various options concerning how time settings are displayed. For more information on these options see Settings General on the wordpress.org site.
BEFORE MOVING ON MAKE SURE TO CLICK “SAVE SETTINGS”
3. Now under the settings Option choose the “writing” option. Here you should make sure to deselect the “Convert emoticons like :-) and :-P to graphics on display” option. For more information on the rest of these settings see Settings Writing on the wordpress.org site.
BEFORE MOVING ON MAKE SURE TO CLICK “SAVE SETTINGS”
4. Finally under the settings option choose the “Reading” option.
5. Here you need to choose which of your pages will be the one displayed first when people first come to visit your site. For the purposes of this tutorial we will assume that you want the page entitled “Our Church” displayed on the home page.
6. After “Front page displays:” choose the “A Static Page” option.
7. Now directly below that where it says “Front Page:” select “Our Church” (or the title of another page you wish displayed first) from the drop down box.
BEFORE MOVING ON MAKE SURE TO CLICK “SAVE SETTINGS”
8. For more information about the options listed on the rest of this page go to Settings Reading page on wordpress.org.
Now you have your basic settings set up it time to choose a theme to make your webpage look how you like. Continue to Part 5 – Changing Themes