7 Blog design
There are many ways to use Posts, Pages, Blogroll, and Categories to organize your blog.
One standard approach is to update your blog regularly with Posts that are sent to your front page (newest posts on top, older posts below). When writing these Posts, add them to useful Categories (such as “class announcements,” “lectures,” “interesting news,” and “just for fun”). The Categories will be visible in the nav bar and readers will be able to dig deeper into categories of interest.
This style of blogging is the WPMU default.
A second approach is to have a static front page — perhaps a welcome page that describes the blog — and to have all Posts routed to Categories without ever showing up on the front page.
To select a static front page select Options from the Administrative panel then Reading from the secondary administrative panel.
You can use the drop down menu to select the Page that will display at the blog front. If you want Posts to display on a secondary page, you can choose that Page, too.
This style of blogging makes immediately clear the purpose of your blog and allows on-going content to be efficiently conveyed through well-chosen Categories. The TechAcad 09 blog makes use of a static homepage.
On either style of blog, Pages are employed to provide links to in-depth and relatively static information.
The Blogroll is used to group links to websites of interest.
Categories are most often used to categorize Posts, but they can also be used to group links in more specific ways than simply placing them in the Blogroll. To do this, choose Blogroll from the Adminstrative panel, then Add Link. Look to the right and see a list of possible categories: instead of choosing Blogroll, choose another Category and your link will be groupled under that category.
