A few WordPress basics - don’t skip this

In WordPress information is published either as ‘page’ or as ‘post’. Read through the ‘post’ page and the ‘page’ page before you start writing. Although you will immediately notice the quality of the explanations, not all of it might be clear after you read it the first time - don’t worry, it will get clearer after a while. Simply speaking, ‘posts’ are the chronological articles that make up most of the content of typical blogs. Pages on the other hand are more static articles, which are, hm, ‘timeless’. A common example is the ‘about’ page on many blogs. In our case, since we want to create a ‘normal’ website and not a blog, we will write ‘pages’ for the items on the menu bar on top and the menu items in our sidebar. ‘Posts’ are more useful for blogs, for our website we will stick to ‘pages’.

Shall I start changing the menus or shall I first write pages?

Up to you. Doing the sidebar first will make you think about the overall structure of your site first. That’s a good thing. You won’t be able to add the correct link to your menu items though, because… you don’t have the page yet. By the way, the easiest way to get the link of a page you wrote is to go to page administration and from there chose ‘view’ for the page you want to link to. After it displays you can copy the link of that page from your browser’s address bar. Now you can go back to the sidebar and paste the link you just copied to the corresponding menu item. Confused? Sorry, I just changed my mind. Clear direction: go to customize the sidebar and start there.