Wordpress website navigation...the easy way - Help!

CMS & WordPress
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I’ve successfully created a Wordpress theme using Artisteer. But, I can’t fix the navigation so it doesn’t look like a blog.

The plug-ins are confusing. I’ve installed them but I can’t figure out how to make them work or if they are even the right ones.

I’m trying to avoid hand coding because I’ve got to believe that I can get this website together without messing with code - waaaaay over my skill level.

And, I’d like some sidebars that are used for advertising or links on my site.

Please don’t scold me for not coding. I’m a genius at marketing strategy and writing. So, I’ve got skills just not extensive technical ones.

thanks,
Anne

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Hi

I’ve just started playing around with wordpress a little myself - so no expert but I have set up “proper” website navigation. Its simple heres how:

In desktop

First write a page called “home”

Then select
Settings / Reading

Frontpage displays a static page - “home” (from the radio button and dropdown list)

Now theres a bit of “coding” I’m afraid (not much!)

In the theme open header.php in a text editor and down the bottom paste in the following:

[COLOR=“Blue”]<div id=“mainnav”>

  &lt;ul&gt;
			
          &lt;?php wp_list_pages('title_li=' ); ?&gt;

</ul>

</div>

[/COLOR]

You can then adjust how it looks in “style.css” under

#mainnav

Disclaimer: as mentioned this is the first stuff I’ve done with wordpress but this is how I’ve built my template so far anyway and it works and is pretty simple.

Hope this helps

3

Kaethy - I was wondering what your experience with Artisteer was? I’ve already now how to create the static pages but all the navigation remains as Wordpress with categories, etc. Have you used any plug-ins to fix menus?

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Artisteer is crap.

To make it look like a site and not a blog, have the page links go horizontal undr the header and use a static home page.