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Hi Edita, you'll proabably find them as drafts. Go to your dashboard and find 'write'. At the top you should see which drafts you have open. If you click on them, you will then be able to edit. Then do as Joao suggested and click on 'publish'. For posts that have already been published, it's enough to click on 'save' after editing.

I'm looking forward to reading your first post!

Illya (smielt team)

There’s nothing wrong at all with your blog. Your About page is where it should be and it’s properly referenced in your right sidebar.

There’s currently no actual content on your front page yet because you haven’t posted a blog entry yet.

Look: a blog entry gets entered in the site’s database when you post it. The scripts that shove stuff around inside the site then take the blog post from the database and stick in in two places[1]: for one thing they stick it on top of the front page and for another thing the stick it into a permanent archive page. The post stays put in its archival version but it moves down the front page with every new entry that gets added on top, and eventually it disappears off the front page. There’s a link that connects the entry on the front page to its archival version: that’s technically known as a "permalink".

The above essentially describes how a blog works: an entry enters the "stream" of posts on the front page, but it also gets a permanent location in an archive and there’s a "permalink" from the front page to the archive. A blog, looked at this way, is a stream of posts up front that’s wedded with a permalink to archival representations of its constituent parts out back.

Now, the Page feature in WordPress has nothing to do with this stream. It’s designed to be a single page that never enters that stream and just sits there as a "static" page. It’s special, though, in that it gets a direct link from the "Pages" section in the blog’s sidebar.

Now that you’ve posted Pages, post some blog entries and you’ll have a perfectly regular blog.

Happy blogging!

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[1] Okay, three places: they also stick it into a news feed, but let’s keep to basics first.

Edita, the orange icon in your blog (or the icons of different feed readers) is just a sort of invitation to your readers to subscribe to your blog. It doesn’t mean that they can’t subscribe if you don’t have the icon.

How do I get the fancy quotation graphic for use when I want to quote someone on a wordpress blog post?

Also, when commenting on someone else’s blog, how do I get a hot link to my own blog post?

thanks,

Sarah Braxton

Wordpress.com now allows you to tweak your CSS, so you could make your blockquotes display any which way you want, even with a background graphic.

Not that you should, as block quotes don’t need anything other than an indent. In most cases whimsical embellishments such as added background graphics, copy set in italics, a hefty coloured line down the left side or thin border around the quote are bad typography and interfere with the readability of your copy.

Okay Nancy— take a quick look at your blog’s style sheet — invoke your browser’s Find feature by typing ctrl+f, then type "blockquote" into the Find box and hit the return key.

This will take you to the style sheet’s blockquote element, where all the presentational properties of your block quotations are defined within a set of swung brackets (that’s ‘{’ and ‘}’). Here’s the line that fetches the background graphic and puts it in place:

background: url(img/blockquote.gif) no-repeat left top;

All you’d need to do is to remove this line and the graphic would be gone.

I’ve just, for the first time, read all the way down to the bottom of the Wordpress Custom CSS page, where it says that the ability to modify your style sheets is available only as a paid upgrade. The corresponding page inside the Wordpress admin interface says that Custom CSS will set you back $15 a year. It doesn’t say if it’s tax deductible.