Have a nice 2007 and I am sure I will here from you on other threads.

Using a custom header means that the "title" and "tagline" fields must be empty. Aren't these fields two of the grading criteria for determining SEO? I think so, and was wondering what the work-around to this is. Is there a method that I can enter keywords like this for SEO?

What other steps would help my blog, http://www.considercommonsense.com, obtain more views?

Thanks for the comments regarding use of articles in my site. All these articles belong to this site and any articles from another blogger will be viewed through RSS feeds. I still haven't experimented with them yet, but will soon.

Thanks again.

You can create a static page and then make that your front page.
Dashboard > Write > Write Page

After you create and save a page, go to
Options > Reading

There is a Front Page section where you can set it.

Tabs are just pages. Like charleskrause mentioned, once you create and save new pages, they become new tabs.

ElecticGeek, I really like your custom header. I had originally thougt we were using the same header and then I check and saw that that wasn't true, although I recently changed to it. This is the reason for the active tab question earlier, since the header I thought was the same as yours didn't have these. I see now that your header was different and when I switched these same active tabs appeared. Oops.

A combination question for you since this header is new and I have never used an static home page: Where do I access the fields to populate for the static page and where can I set the active tabs at the bottom of the header?

Thanks for all your help.

You are referring to my blog so I will attempt to answer what I can.

Static page?
Admin Dashboard > Options > Reading
You can set it there.

Custom header?
Created that using GIMP 'cuz it's free and works quite well. Upload under Presentation > Custom Image Header

Hypertabs?
Should work for everyone. I didn't do anything special and don't use custom CSS.

Attempting to get back on topic: :D
I use RSS widgets to include news and research feeds in my sidebar.

As for the custom header issue - I don't use your theme, but I suspect that the them has a "custom header" option under the presentation menu.

As far as the other issues are concerned, I'm not sure what you mean. The same "active menu" is part of your blog as well - all "tabs" at the top are links to static pages. If you add a static page to your blog, it will automatically generate a new tab.

Just use the widget to post the titles of the articles as charles has explained.

Here is another semi-related topic that I am hoping will be easy to answer for the more experienced blogger.

This site, http://blog.geekwithfibroids.com/, uses my theme according to the bottom of their page, yet has a static page with a custom header with an active menu bar that has changing hypertabs as the mouse crosses them. How is this done? Is this what is done with CSS? If so, could I customize the CSS so that a similar active header appears on all of my pages? This would allow me to move the custom header description to the body of the first page and retain the message on the home blog page. I really like this. Or, are there templates you offer that would help do this?

Thanks for your time.

If you use the RSS widget to display a list of links to the most recent articles from their blog (up to 10), then there is no way that I know of to automatically filter "offensive content" from the feed - basically because this is not built into the RSS feed widget, and it is unlikely ever to be built into the widget as there is no way to programatically define "offensive material".

In short, if you want to add complete articles and/or filter articles based on content you will have to do so manually.

You can manually maintain a list of links using the "text widgets" and past in an unordered list as HTML if you wish. This would allow you to filter links as well. This is, however, starting to get way off topic from your original question.

If I have another's articles feed into my site, is there any way I can filter the content, ie: if a new article appears that is offensive, how would I stop it from displaying on my site? Is this possible?

Thanks for your time.

That depends on where you want the links to go.

The "Sidebar Widgets" (Dashboard -> Presentation -> Sidebar Widgets) includes RSS widgets. You would drag one of these RSS widgets into your sidebar, click on the configuration icon (the one that looks like a small browser window on the right hand side), and enter the URI for the RSS feed in that. Presto! The latest articles published on the other blog will appear as a list of links in your sidebar.

If you want to put the actual articles in your blog as blog articles, that is trickier. I know of no way to do so automatically on wordpress.com hosted blogs, but you can always do this manually, or (what is more polite) add a paragraph or so of commentary on the article and creating a link to their article.

As for finding the address for their feed on their blog page, you'll have to hunt a bit. It will be on their page. Do a text search for 'feed', 'syndication', or 'RSS' would be my advice. They won't be making it hard to find. Looking in the page footer and/or sidebar for the link is also a good idea.

For your content to appear on their site...

They would have to do something similar as what I suggested above. You can't just make your content appear on other people's blogs :) I assume, however, that this is something you both want to do.

If I found another blog that had content that complimented mine, would I be able to link its articles to mine and mine to theirs if they so chose? How would I do this? Are there search engine benefits to do this or is it looked at poorly?

Where do I find the address for the feed? I just have the address for the full blog. Will it place these fed posts on the right menu bar or will they be treated like my posts?

Thanks for bearing with the "new guy."