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Oh, it isn’t? I thought it was more of a web-building platform.
It would be good to learn it though.
Thanks for your help. I’ll give that theme a shot.

Thank you Andrew,
Hmm. That looks interesting. Okay, I’ll check it out and see if those can be made into boxes and modified into large video players on the secondary pages.
So there isn’t some basic way you just build a page? Trying to implement your own design from a gazillion template themes seems really a lot of wasted effort. There must be something I’m missing for it to be so popular.
I”d like to learn it,it can’t be that difficult. But it’s really aggravating to start from scratch and not be able to put a box on the front page! Maddening.

Here’s really the question. Is there a way to start from the most basic, ground-up theme and simply design the front page, with thumbnails and video boxes, a logo and a tagline? And have them link to their respective pages? I don’t understand why this is so hard to do in WordPress. It’s really frustrating.

The style of the Divina theme would be nice, the way they have their pictures placed on the example, as long as it would allow adjusting tagline, logo etc to stretch along the top.
The themes I installed on Godaddy just to play with them are Blackfoot lite, Blox, Black Hero, Flatia, Divino, Magazino, Metro Creative X, Novavideo lite, Orea, Pinblack, Profitmag, Portfolio Gallery, Twenty Sixteen/Fifteen/Fourteen, Parabola.
I gave up on themes and went back to the basic one, but might try the out again. None of them matches the design I want, the examples just have boxes on the front that I thought would be modifiable. I’m going to go back and play with them but they are limited in what they let you do.

Tried several but have not picked one yet. Went back to Twenty Fourteen thinking it was probably basic enough to have my own colors and fonts. I’m playing with some different themes right now. Is there one that would be best for this task? (Free please).
Putting thumbnails on the front page, gallery style, that link to individual pages, would be fine as well as long as I can choose size and position.