Stylesheets versus Automated Controls

It appears that to make the type of changes I’d like to the site (for example, to widen it) this requires going into the stylesheet for the blog and making changes there.  Perhaps long term I will prefer that, as it gives greater control.  But for now that seems to me limiting as I’m not sure how to things and I want to get going with this site.

I wonder how this application is supported on campus.  I guess I’ll learn that soon enough as I try to go through the help desk for the issue with comments being closed.

Trying to Learn WordPress

After using Blogger for many years and letting my site at WordPress.com go to seed, I’m trying again to learn how to use WordPress because this is a campus project and I should use campus tools in support of this project.  So the site will likely go through many changes in appearance as I figure out how to make it do what I want it too.  At the start though, I’m a bit frustrated by my ignorance and/or by the WordPress defaults and functions.

Here is one example to illustrate.  In setting up this site I not only chose a site title, but I also entered a site description.  The title is plain on the homepage but where is the site description?  I will close here so to see if I can find it and then make it visible on the homepage.