[stylist] blog advice

[Ashley Bramlett]

Hi all,
I’m trying to use wordpress as my blog. Any advice? How can I navigate the dashboard and everything better? Often I cannot even down arrow to explor the page and when I tab to links, it says “has popup” what on earth does that mean? And whatever is on the page, maybe flash, is preventing me from reading it line by line and exploring it. I don’t mean the blog site after its written; I can read the blog text like a normal webpage; each blog post is a begins with a heading. 

I am also having trouble posting for this reason. I used to just go to dashboard and click on add new. Then write my post! Often I wrote the title and copied  the text in from my word processor. Now I don’t see a link for that. I clicked on new post. But I have trouble locating the link to actually write a post. Also, can someone tell me what tags are  and how to use them? How do they differ from categories?

I noticed all blog posts are all one page, a mass of text.
Can I make a new page and do I do that from the dashboard? I want every two weeks to be a new page. It would be easier to navigate that way for any readers!  

If this doesn’t work out, I could switch sites, but I started it here and would like to keep it if possible.
Ashley