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It helps people move around your site when you have a clean navigation menu in the sidebar and/or the footer.

WordPress makes it easy to style your WordPress site with Themes, many of which are tested thoroughly on different computers and browsers before being released.

They say you can not judge a book by its cover, and yet every day people do. They pick up a book, look at the cover, and then are moved to either put it down, turn it over, or open it up just because of how the cover looks. Websites are also judged by their covers and the first impression ...

Besides the helpful WordPress forums and this Codex, there are many sites dedicated to helping WordPress users use WordPress even better. WordPress help is everywhere. So how do you find it when you really need it?

As with many software packages, WordPress has its own lingo or jargon. This article will introduce you to some of the terminology used in WordPress.

In many WordPress sites, you will see odd symbols that will pop up from time to time. Often these symbols appear in navigation links.

Although WordPress displays in U.S. English by default, the software has the built-in capability to be used in any language. The WordPress community has already translated WordPress into many languages, and there are Themes, translation files, and support available in many other languages.

Your posts are filed in different categories. Category information is freqently displayed in the post meta data section near your post or under the heading title. Different WordPress Themes highlight the post meta data section in different areas.

Horizontal Menus are an excellent way to create a menu of categories or Pages, highlighting specific areas of interest within your website. Many web designers place a horizontal menu under the header, where they draw the eye.

If you take a peek into the header.php template file that came with your WordPress Theme, you will notice that where it says "My Blog Name", whatever it is, when you view your WordPress site, it doesn't say "My Blog Name" in the template file.