An empty Text Widget in the sidebar widget area(s) may help with what you are trying to do. A link to your blog would be helpful, too.
http://theseattlescene.wordpress.com/
just started it, and im very new to all this so any advice, tips is greatly appreciated
cais has the right answer. As soon as you add 1 widget to your sidebar via Admin/Appearance/Widgets, all of the default sidebar content should disappear. So then it’s just a case of adding only the widgets you want in your sidebar.
thank you thank you….this is really tough at first. do you recommend a website of some sort to get trained better on this? I want it to look less like a blog and more like a website
Try http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_Design_and_Layout
Ignore the title. It does go beyond blogs and into web sites/design in general.
is it better to download wordpress to my harddrive or just keep editing online?
When making changes to theme template files or stylesheets, I prefer to download a copy of the theme to my own machine, make the changes locally and then upload the amended files to the server. That way I can keep a backup copy of the theme locally in case anything goes pear-shaped.
