Hi HAFH – good to see a fellow educator on here. I actually advise a lot of schools and teachers on this, so it’s lucky I stumbled upon your post!
When you say “maneuver” through, what exactly is it you’d like to do with a theme that you can’t figure out so far? Depending on your needs, it might be easier to go with a solution like Weebly (which is more user-friendly, but less powerful than WordPress). If you’ve already paid for a year of web hosting, there are other things we could do with that, like setting up a Moodle server.
Graphene theme is a far developed theme wih an extensive admin area. You can modify the site quite alot without hardly modifying any code. Perhaps it would be worth a look?
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oh thank you both so much.. I actually am a pharmacist who is stepping out on faith to open a montessori child care/family center.. i dont like weebly(i had someone supposedly helping me swithced my wordpress to weebly and got mad when I asked them to change some stuff)lol..so back on my own ..I just realized what blogging was six months ago…lol if that explains how New I am to all this.. so when i say manuever, i dont understand codes and technical..i like the drag and drop of weebly but really want to engage the world with posts and helpful tips to parents and want to utilize google analytics and stuff that will really get my site seen… so i was using basic simplicity but got stuck once i put my headers up.. i want drop down menus and ease of typing content and posting at the blink of an eye since I am on my own
Great to hear about the new Montessori school! A few other themes to check out include Paperpunch, Digg 3 Column, and Contempt.
If you do want to learn more about how WordPress works to really unleash your imagination, the WordPress Codex has a lot of great resources to get you started and Treehouse is a great service for learning web design. Of course, these forums are also helpful when you still get stuck!
