Nubie needs major help

  • I’m new to blogging so please be patient. I read in multiple articles that this software is better than Moveable Type, so I made the obvious choice. I am now having second thoughts.

    I am having problems viewing the pages that I create. I am trying to use the basic Themes, but when I click on them to view, they appear blank. I would ultimately like to redesign the header and sidebars, but am not confident that I can. I have basic web design knowledge and have created sites using Dreamweaver and Flash. I have tried to upload pages into my WordPress Dashboard, but cannot find them anywhere.

    Is Moveable Type a better software package, but has Terms and Conditions limitations, or am I not giving WordPress a chance. I’ve tried everything for the last 3 days…very frustrated and ready to uninstall everything and start over.

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  • We have all the help you need around here ??

    First – where is your WP site and can you give us the url to a page you have created ?

    You mention uploading pages – are you not creating them inside WP itself ?

    Um, I’d say, no. MT is not a better software package. I think WP is far better. But I admit that I’m very biased. Besides, WP is completley free. MT will cost you money. Make the “obvious choice” (your words ?? ).

    As for WP not working properly, I don’t know that you’ve provided enough information for people to be very helpful. Maybe you could include information about where you are hosting your account, and what versions of PHP and MySQL you are running. I assume you are talking about a WP 2 installation.

    I’d first try to get WP running without themes. Then once you are getting posts to display like you like, then you can mess with the themes. But we won’t know if it is a theme problem or a site problem or what if you don’t get it working first with the default theme.

    You might have a database problem. You might try a fresh installation if you don’t already have content.

    I’m pretty new to WordPress myself, and I’m a PHP novice. But I’ve learned enough to get by. And the forums here are pretty helpful, when you provide enough information that the experts here can actually help you. ??

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