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Hey, what's going on? This is Geoff Blake from tentononline.com and in this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to create a website (not a blog) using WordPress. This is something that a lot of people want to know how to do with their WordPress site. So the objective here is to turn off the blog "look and feel", if you will, of their WordPress site and create a more traditional looking and behaving website.

Now, before we really dive into it, I've put together a free WordPress guide to go along with this video, which you can go and pick up over at tentononline.com/wpguide. So, pause the video and go and grab your free guide now.

Alright, now, as I say, the objective here is to turn the blog look and feel off. I'm running just a straight up fresh installation of WordPress here, really nothing too exciting happening here.

We might want to start things off with a theme that doesn't have a blog feel to it. Here I'm using the default 2013 theme just to demonstrate and much of what I'm going to show you is going to work for a lot of other themes but you may want to use a more website-y feel-y theme, if that makes sense to you. Maybe a theme like "Responsive" or "Business lite" or "Hatch". These are all good examples of WordPress themes that have more of a traditional website feel to them.

Alright, now, what I'm going to do here is I'm going to take sort of a top-down approach to converting what I am seeing here into more of a traditional site and I'm going to start off right at the very top, "My Blog" and then "My WordPress Blog".

So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to flip over to the back end of my WordPress site which I have here in another browser tab. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to head all the way down to "Settings" down towards the bottom left corner and then over to "General". Okay. And inside the "General" screen I can change the "Site Title" and the "Tagline". This is where we see "My Blog" and "My WordPress Blog".

So, give me a second here. I'm going to change this to, just as a quick example here, "My Company Site", something like this, and then perhaps the tagline for my company, "The Fastest Widgets in Town". There we go. Somethi ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4ACxJS8_-E