Mark

no problem:) i understand your point although its not completely accurate.

are you implying that people who use templates to save time don’t do any work on the templates? the templates that i have used still take a lot of work to get just right. those who use templates “as is” can set them up pretty quickly. but there is still work that goes into it. templates just save me time in designing everything from scratch.

i’ll look into the noise you speak of though:)

Thank you guys so much for your insight. I am still having some issues with how my design is rendered in WP, I hate IE, but a lot of people use it, oh well:)

theillustratedlife- I totally agree with you. I started with WP after some other means of creating a database were exhausted. I now have 2 sites running WP. FoxValleyShows.com and themidwestscene.com. FVS is a site that basically uses the “guts” of WP as a database management system and TMS uses WP as it was basically intended for. Both sites work well for me and WP definately makes a lot of editing easier with its awesome Admin section.

Before I would have to manually edit pages with Dreamweaver and reupload the page. Now that wasn’t a big deal, but WP makes soo many things easier to deal with. Tons of plugins, tons of helpful people in the forums help make the difficult database management issues easy. Plus most of the people here are just good people in general.

So being a novice with database management systems, WP has made it easy:)

Thanks again for your thoughts theillustratedlife and everyone else too.

A tutorial going through some complex issues would be helpful I am sure. I am sure some one here could handle that request if one hasn’t been done already.

Leofish- I like the idea of the permalinks and yes that should help with searching and search engines with their spiders.

But now WP created a “2005” folder and those images don’t show up. Short of using the “<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>” code before all of my images, is there another way of telling the “2005” folder where the images can be found?

Thanks guys for your thoughts. I did fix the bug in IE and added the WP thing too. Didn’t think I needed that. But I love WP so I’ll add it:)

Hmm I would have thought that there would have been something in the header or something about this. Is there an easy way to set where the entire WP get aligned?