Yesterday it rained, seriously rained, and not realising that an online friend was living in France I got worried when she talked of a forecast of another week of heavy rain. Not good news, I thought, contemplating our own impending family holiday in the UK. 
Today I managed that as well, tackling an event that I’d been putting off writing about for some time. I’m not quite finished yet, but pleased with the way it’s going and though today the word count is going up and down, i’m keeping track both of cuts and new writing and correspondingly encouraged on both counts. 
And WordPress? Well, I’ve been trying over the last two weeks to re-vamp my rather boring website / blog to make it more user-friendly and, I hope, more colourful and interesting. Having solicited advice I was asked why I had blog posts on my home page and was told I should try to separate them and leave my ‘landing page’ uncluttered.
Once I’d worked out what ‘landing page’ meant, I googled for WordPress help and found clear instructions for what I wanted. (Extremely clear – I managed at first attempt.) However I found that WordPress defaults to posting onto the home page, so now I’m wondering, is there a good reason for that? Should I have changed? Or was it just one of the vagaries of the WordPress system?
On a roll I thought I’d tackle the issue I really want to solve – how to have a page with a contact form on it that would allow anyone visiting my site to leave me a message and their contact details. There does seem to be an ‘Add Contact’ button – only problem is, although the preview shows a blank form, when i upload it onto a page it miraculously becomes pre-populated with MY details. Not what I want at all.
