Issues regarding categories, fonts, and spacing

  • Hi there! I am kinda new to all this, so please be patient.

    I just had someone create a new website for me, and he has installed wordpress on my site as a blog (since I wanted to constanntly be able to post new articles, product reviews, and information on my site easily). I currently have a blog set up with blogger.com, and have never had any problems with that (I think thats because its blogging for dummies). Not to mention, the theme of that blog is completely different.

    I have been playing around with wordpress today, and have successfully figured out how to create categories. Hooray! =)

    I have successfully posted a few articles, and I guess when I post to this blog, everything will always post according to newest date, which is fine. Thats how my account with blogspot is set up as well.

    However, is there any way that you can organize the articles in each category. Right now, if you click under a category, it just brings up every article I have submitted in that category. For instance, I have 3 articles posted under the “business resources for newbies
    category”. But, if you are looking for a specific article, wouldnt it be hard to find it since you would have to scroll through all the articles to find the one someone is looking for? I know that the
    search feature is on the blog, so that would make it easier. I just wansnt sure if there was a way that you could create a page of just article titles. Then, when someone would click on a specific article title, it would take them directly to that article.

    I’m not sure, but I am sure that this is probably going to be something tooo complicated for a beginner like me.

    Also, does anyone happen to know anything about playing around with the fonts when posting? I love MS Word, so all I am doing right now is copying and pasting my articles from MS Word into wordpress. WHen I do this, however, sometimes the spacing and fonts change.. I’m not really sure why, but I cannot figure out how to change the fonts and spacing so that it is uniform…………. any guidance you have to offer would be appreciated.

    I tried contacting the person who created my website, but unfortunately, he doesnt know too much about wordpress. So, he wasnt much help.

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  • Hi! You write:

    “But, if you are looking for a specific article, wouldnt it be hard to find it since you would have to scroll through all the articles to find the one someone is looking for?”

    This is the inherent differens between an ordinary web site and a blog. Latest is regarded most interesting.
    But if you have certain posts that you want easily available all the time, you could just make a link ( permalink ) to it in the sidebar.
    and

    “.. if there was a way that you could create a page of just article titles”

    There is no very simple way of doing this and after all, soon enough you will have a lot of posts on your blog and incredibly long link lists are hard to anyway.

    No to something really serious:
    You write:

    “I love MS Word, so all I am doing right now is copying and pasting my articles from MS Word into WordPress.”

    I’ll say this: Don’t! Ever!!

    If you continue this habit you will sooner or later crash your blog. This is because you will get a lot of Word specific style codes, that no browser can understand and that will corrupt the (x)html and make it not valid.
    What you input here is not as easily repaired as in an html page, because it is stored in your database.

    If you copy text from Word or web pages or any source that is not plain text, you should first copy to a text editor such as Notepad or TextPad and from there into the posting editor in WordPress.

    “If you copy text from Word or web pages or any source that is not plain text, you should first copy to a text editor such as Notepad or TextPad and from there into the posting editor in WordPress. “

    I agree. And it doesn’t hurt to save the copy before you copy&paste into your blog ??

    Thread Starter tabithanaylor

    (@tabithanaylor)

    Thanks all. =) As I previously stated, I am a newbie to all this, so even the simplest thing is a bit of a challenge at this point.

    I will use notepad for typing up my articles (or at least pulling them from MS Word). I am sure this will solve the problems I am having.

    as far as anything else is concerned, I will try and work something between my blog and website. thanks again for all your help.

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