Squaring away my Home Page from A to Z

My first “real” night of WordPressing. Several glitches no doubt born of sheer ignorance:

1. I deleted the “Hello World” Home Page after reading where it said, “You’ve read it, now either delete or edit” the thing, “and start blogging”. But now going to ghost32writer.com (my site), it just says Nope, Nothing Here, Too Bad So Sad (or words to that effect).

2. I had worked on setting up an About Me page which which I’m actually pleased–at least for starters. But I don’t have a CLUE how to bring up a blank page that will default to being my Home Page so I can start building the beast. ???????????????

Side note: I’ve only ever set up one other site before, with Site Build It, back in 2007. The beginning confusion is familiar; I can say that much!

3. Several problems with Inserting Images on a Page:

A. It looks like they should Drag and Drop, but not exactly. I can get the 4-way arrow symbol that says OKAY, but then it goes nowhere. EVERY image tries to insert at the very top of the page and gets really stubborn about moving. Using the “angled arrows”, I was able to move things SOMEWHAT, but it was a tedious process and none too certain, either. ANY HINTS?

B. On that same page, I’d posted 3 images. The third one turned out to be one I wanted at the top of the page (below the Featured Image but above the text)…but it wouldn’t slide up past the first image I’d posted.

So I eventually deleted image #1, popped #3 in at the top just fine–but then was unable to get ANY more images to post at all. All I had were 2, though at one point there’d been 3 inserted, and it did not matter what image I used. EXCEPT for the Featured Image, which I was able to add easily. CLUES?

C. There are also two icons I can bring up on a posted image. One “hovers” as “Edit Image”, the other as “Delete Image”…but neither seems to do anything except toggle back and forth. ??????

4. I messed up and hit “Save” on a page version I did NOT want. Now every time I go into edit that (About Me) page, it flies a big warning banner telling me there’s an autosaved version newer than the page version I’ve published–VIEW the AUTOSAVE. Okay, fine. But when you view the Autosave, I can’t find a way to tell the warning banner to SHUT UP ALREADY and GO AWAY. ?????

‘Nuff for now. Got an idea I’ll be haunting these Forums for a while…:)

Thanks,

Ghost32