The Dashboard

this is the control centre for your website. It shows you a host of information about your website, such as: Incoming Links (other websites which link to yours), Recent Comments (by visitors to your site), general statistics about the number and type of visitors coming to your site and then all of specific functionality for creating new content for website.

From WordPress’s perspective there are two types of content.  A post and a page.

A Post

A post is like an entry in your diary, it requires a title then some content - which can contain text, images, video’s and audio.  WordPress also automatically adds the Date and the author (your name) to your post - this way it can archive all of your posts by month / year and if your blog is being used by more than one person, it automatically archives all the content by author as well.

A Page

Writing a page is very similar to writing a post, infact the interface is almost identical for both.  A page also requires a title and some content.  The important difference between a post and a page is that a page is static, meaning it sits outside the rest of the content.  Pages are useful for static content which you would like people to access relatively easily, the classic example being the ‘About’ page