http://en.support.wordpress.com/

If you search and cannot find what you are looking for, as Tess says, post your question here and we will either post a link to the appropriate support page for you, and if the answer is a little more involved, we will supplement the link with more information.

Please use the link provided by featherseeds: it is a fine tutorial to get you started using WordPress.COM.

Also note that according to Wikipedia, "post" has quite a few meanings, including

Post, an entry in a blog or internet forum

We volunteers in this forum try our best to help folks use the software for this WordPress.COM blogging platform by answering technical questions. Please feel free to post any and all questions you have about this blogging platform.

One last thing to understand is that there are different kinds of WordPress, distinct and separate from each other. We volunteers help with the free-hosted platform, but if you are reading books or information online then you may be confusing this version of WordPress with the version where folks use wp.ORG software and pay to host their websites.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

Try this:

http://learn.wordpress.com

Or you could, you know, hook yourself up to the Mark Super VII Quantum E-meter for an hour or two to make the rage go away..

Your instructions make no sense to me. They are a dog's breakfast. You use words or language that are senseless.

There is nothing that I like about it.

There is no system and order to it.

I cannot make head or tail out of it.

I don't even like this support forum.

I do not want to contact the community.

I want to contact the web masters of "wordpress".

I hope this letter some how gets there.

For one: On your "blog set up site" or "instruction set up site" , it looks like you use the words "edit" and "post" for everything, including writing and publishing.

Edit means to correct or change something that has been written.

Post means to: (from the net)

Display (a notice) in a public place: "the exam results were posted this morning".

Send (a letter or parcel) via the postal system: "I've just been to post a letter".

"Write" or "type" means exactly that, to write or type something.

There are many other things that are so screwy that they are difficult to explain.

Are you schitzophrenic or on drugs or something else is wrong?

Or did you fail English and communication skills in school?

I am so frustrated, I could spit and swear.

Your instructions have zero user friendly content.

They have zero logic to them.

I do not see any intelligent organized thought that goes into your site. Just a lot of hype and mindless, disorganized chatter.

It is the opposite of professional. The opposite of intelligent.

At the least:

I would like to see a page for beginners, or for dummies, with nothing else but a basic simple template, with simple straight forward instructions.

With a place to enter data about myself; like "About me".

Then a place to enter my introduction as to what subject matter my blog is about.

Then under my introduction, I want to see places where my readers can write comments and I can also comment with them in an orderly fashion.

Then I want to see a button to publish it.

Then a place or button to view it as the public will see it and use it.

Then what "blog site" or "website address", I need to use to post on other places on the net where others can see it and click on and write something if they want.

That is all I can think of to write now.

If you want more information you can write me at:

david.pelly at hotmail.ca
Blog url: http://highthetaorg.wordpress.com/

I can quote the bard.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

and also up up and away
to close another thread…

Tess is by far the nicest of all of the forum volunteers.

wth you mean "why are you still looking here"? its cause i keep getting emails that u dumbasses keep replying.

ps: I read what you've got. Good job on the writing. I'm not a sports fan but I can appreciate the work you're putting into it. Are you affiliated with the team in any way? I'm not clear why you are stating who should be signed. Sign the shark!

IMO, you can even put back the blue you had as titles. I like how you took out your intro -very good. I like how it's all set up. I can see the header now much more in focus. The only thing I would change is the yellow-orange color on the sidebar. I can't see it. It's coming up fuzzy. The blue you originally had could work or maybe even black. Otherwise, good work! :o)

http://sharkcircle.wordpress.com/

Feel free to tell me what you think. And I am planning to make the post title text smaller to match the sidebar widget titles text once someone helps me figure out how.

I will really appreciate help if anyone knows how to get it done.

<3
Tess

Shakespeare's Puck was the first thing I thought of when I read this thread.

more slobbery kisses...

Oh. So many changes.

I just realized my Mikey will be 16 years old soon. Imagine that cat driving my car?
My father died in March, and we siblings plus children spent some time up north this month to inter the ashes of both of my parents.
Sadness and happiness mix: it was the first time all the sibs and kids got together. cousins!

I can't help but think of Puck in Midsummer's Night.

Slobbery love = good.

Remember Harp? Harp Malarky is in Heaven. I balled every night for 8 months, that is not an exaggeration. These people that have children die -I know what that feels like. I didn't even like cats. Harp made me love cats. He was the most romantic man on the planet. Annie is with him now. (She's the one in the picture). Annie was my shadow. For 9 years, I had a constant pant and tail attached to my shadow.

Kisses to your kitty from Daisy. Daisy is my purebred mutt. She inspires me to be a better person. She sends you her slobbery love.

last line should say
IMO it is a useful tool. One I use on my test blog as I experiment with it to answer questions in the forums

Can’t respond to CSS or having two blogs. No expertise there. Not sure about the traps, either. Sorry.

“…as if to say I don't have a sports writers touch…”
--You do write like a sports writer. But I’m guessing you’re not a sports writer. And people in the profession stay on top of their profession by reading and listening to other people’s work in that same profession. It’s a way they have of staying alert. It‘s like working out and getting your body firm and then letting yourself go for a year --you‘re going to lose that edge. It’s a niche so you stay on top.

“…I went through it all a 10th and 11th time before publishing it…”
--I can tell. That’s why I said the writing’s tight.

“It never killed anyone reading one or two sentences twice out of a thousand.”
--Did you see the film, “A River Runs Through It?” Remember the father? Remember how he made his older son write the same story using less words? It won’t kill your readers cuz you’ve got it pretty tightly woven. Most people aren’t going to notice. But the flip side of that coin is… Can an athlete looking to get signed with the Sharks afford to be sloppy -twice- and still expect to get signed? That’s the difference between a published writer and a wannabe that wants to skip all the work and take home all the credit.

Something else i'm noticing just on the writing side. You mentioned how i don't repeat things and it's concise and all, and if it is mostly concise that's because I went through it all a 10th and 11th time before publishing it, trying to remove any sentences that did not provide new information.

However, re-reading it now, there does still seem to be repetition in a few "trap" areas you could call them.

Here is what i mean by trap. As I described in the previous post, I tried to give both neutral and Sharks sections for each player. So the first section details why a player is good, in general, and the second details why a player would be good for the Sharks specifically. The "writing trap" so to speak is that these are often the same. Even with these edited versions, there is still some of: "What makes Anthony Stewart a good player is his speed, physicality, and shot." "Anthony Stewart would have helped the Sharks with his speed, physicality, and ability to chip in some scoring."

Maybe this is what you were referring to, among other things?

I'll try not to beat myself up over it too much, or be too hard on myself. Tell me if this is incorrect, but, while I am of course trying to write my best and perfect my blogs during the writing process, I'm also trying to keep a perspective once my blogs are published that most the hockey blogs I read don't exactly have the highest standard for writing, or intelligence, for that matter. This is a sport where a lot of General Managers can't figure out a way to even have their teams make the playoffs for 10 seasons in a row. And in hockey, more teams make the playoffs than don't. 16 out of 30 make it. And a lot of these managers don't even get fired. Improvement is made at a glacial pace is most instances, repeatedly good value players I myself, a fan, know about, are passed up by these guys. These hundred million dollar valued teams seem to be run in large part by complete idiots, and that culture seems to seep into the hockey blogosphere as well.

So it's basically, write the best you can, try to perfect it, but if you don't, don't worry too much about it because your blog still couldn't possibly be as bad as many of the other hockey ones out there. Try not to repeat things, but if you do, especially in a blog where you're having to write two very similar sections on the same player, where it's almost a tailor made trap to get you to repeat things, don't worry too much about it. It never killed anyone reading one or two sentences twice out of a thousand.

Good attitude or not?

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