If you need to write some code within your wordpress blog as I had over on dev.basshead.info you will what the code to show as text and not get rendered. So I installed this plugin code-markup.php and for installing and instructions then go here.
“Code Markup is a WordPress plugin that makes it easy to include program code samples in your posts. You can even include HTML markup in the code sample; Code Markup magically knows which characters should be displayed as code and which should be rendered as HTML.”
I have now installed wordpress as my front page and plan for it to be the foundations of the website.
The current theme is based on the original that comes with the default install of wordpress, but then I changed the coding to create my own style and layout.
The top navigation menu was achieved by adding a simple HTML list to the header.php below the header section and then adding the required CSS into style.css file.
(details on how to do the above will appear soon)
At present the style/layout will change with addition of old pages being revamped and using wordpress as the engine behide it. So come back soon for more updates
I have now installed wordpress on my local server, this will change later to be more of a front page.