The first thing to do is look at Settings > Media and make sure you are happy with the image sizes that are specified there.

While adding or editing a page or post, click the Add An Image icon. If you use the Flash Uploader, you will see that you can select multiple files. The images for your gallery can be in multiple folders or all in one folder.

In the HTML editor, you can add the shortcode [gallery] anywhere in your post or page. In Visual mode, there is an Insert Gallery button.

You can click the Add An Image icon at any time to see the images in the gallery, and also to remove them or change the order.

To get the most out of your image galleries, you will probably want to install a Lightbox plugin, and if you plan to post large galleries, you will want a Pagination plugin. I have found that jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries and ByREV Gallery Pagination for WordPress, but note that I had to leave AJAX caching turned off to make the latter work without conflicting with another plugin.

Voila! You now have a photo gallery and you didn’t manually resize any photos or write any code!

Examples:

Gallery on a WordPress Page

Gallery in a WordPress Post

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My answer to the second question is always “It can be. It can be anything you want it to be.”

The answer to the first question is much more complex. There are many reasons to blog…

• RSS makes it easier to get your site noticed
• You may gain the respect of your audience as you demonstrate your skills at self-publishing. You may even come to be considered an aficionado on a given subject or a reliable source of information or inspiration. Bolster your credibility.
• It’s a feature-rich web site that is very fast and easy to set up & maintain
• Plugins and Themes allow you to easily expand/upgrade functionality & appearance

I think there are two ways to approach setting up a blog. You have to decide whether you want your blog to be post-driven or page-driven. Most blogs are post-driven, meaning that the home page contains the most recent posts. However, a blog can be page-driven, meaning that the home page is one of your blog pages, and users have to click a link in the  pages menu to see the most recent posts. Pages can have “parent pages” and thereby become nested in the page menu. In this  way the posts aspect of the blog becomes played down a bit and the user experience is more like that of a traditional static web site. In fact, you don’t have to have a default posts page at all. However, in every scenario the admin has a powerful set of tools with which to update and maintain the site.

Perhaps the best way to get a sense of the things you can do with a blog is to peruse the WordPress Plugins Directory. It contains over 4,000 plugins at the time of this writing. Plugins can allow your blog to become an ecommerce site, an appointment scheduler, a place to announce events, an image gallery, a music library, an educational resource, etc. and the best part is that you can maintain it yourself with little or no intervention from a webmaster.

So, if you are thinking about putting up a web site and you are concerned about things like easy maintenance, low setup and maintenance costs, and easy customizability, you may want to consider putting up a blog rather than a traditional web site.

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