After going wacky creating parts of several different designs for the site, from cartoony to artsy, I finally found words of wisdom on another free CMS site. On the Guppy CMS site I saw a post by the creator that wondered about people who spent thier time endlessly modifying the CMS and asking for features and never got their site done -ironic since many users turn to a CMS to make things easier. I finally decided I was either going to have to use the basic tools that came with my webserver to manage straight HTML pages or I was going to start off with a simple mod of a WB supplied template; I opted to go with a simple cut up of the Round template and am glad I did. I'll revisit the design later but for now I am starting by organizing the structure for the content I want to add.
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