FTP: (only required if you wish to replace the top banner on the blog page)
 - allows you to upload the pages you design or edit on your desktop, and you can also use it to edit pages in your /root (site directory)
Best Free FTP I could find ( easy enough)
Best/Easiest commercial one (has 30day  trial) $34  €27
Best/Easiest commercial one with 'resume' if cut-off  (has 30day trial ) $35

They are simple to use for straignt file upload:  cut local address from address bar in windows where your files are C:\Documents and Settings\routeto..\   paste it in the left window of coreftp, in right window add your server path.  add ftp.ggg.com,  user and pass.  Dial in. To upload multiple pages, select, then right-click and drag and click transfer arrow.  To edit files in either window with FTP, select file, right-click and select edit, you may have to save or it auto-saves, as in coreftp.
 
 

On Unix/Linux the server path to your blog is:
/home/yourname/public_html/yourblog/
/home/yourname/public_html/yourblog/
 

Ofcourse on this server the blog is installed for you, so we start from after installation.
You will really have to read the manual and do searches on the site as I have just read it briefly my self. But here all you need to get going at once, without much ado, searching about the script etc.

Examine the default menu which now shows on your page. Are there any links you want to keep on your pages? 
You may want to click them, cut them out of your addressbar and save them to add them to LINKS later as they may heve to be removed in blocks, so you can't keep 2 and delete 2.  But they are for ever in the script anyway, so you access them later also.

Categories seem to be replacements for pages, like in a html site or php site. index.html is actually a category.  And then index2.html becomes a sub category (or can become a subcat. if you create one).
 
 

To prepare your blog for publishing.
Enter with admin and pass, then instantly make a backup of the board, this in case you get errors when edditing, keep a 2nd backup, under a different name - like backup-edit1, so you can roll back to the latest backup or to scratch. To rollback the board to your last backup,  you just choose IMPORT and import the backup. Reload and all is reset.

We are quickly going to create two sections: site pages (categories), then external links pages (so called as it seems that's what they are mainly for).  The Link 'pages' in the admin do what the 'categories' link does, but we are going to use categories as here the pages actually start  - where the index.php page is. Add index.php in your address bar after  http://whostars.com/yourname/blog/index.php and you get to the page you can now see in your admin as uncategorized. 

YOU MUST RELOAD YOUR BLOG PAGES EVERYTIME TO SEE CHANGES. For ease you may use two windows, one for home page and one for the admin

To Create blog pages:

a) Enter admin area
b) Click 'Dashboard'
c) next to your menu, on the right, in the box, click 'Categories'.
d) you now see 'uncategorized'. Scroll over the link en click 'Edit'
e) in Category name slot put  'Home' and in 'Slug' put home (lowercase). This is your homepage; post here people will first see.
f) On your left menu, click 'Post'
g) tick box next to the post 'Hello world' scroll over, tick 'Delete' and delete the post.
h) under the 'Post' menu, click 'add new'
- Enter blog name, click 'change permalink' right under that. Here you change the /? crap link to /home/.
- scrol down and select 'CustomStructure' and next to that add:  /home
- scrol down and next to 'Category Base' enter 'Home', as the cat. is Home.
(you got to read the manual about tags)
- Scroll down and save changes.

The page closes and your back at the 'New Post' page.

i) enter post text in text slot, to add image, tick the first square box. . No cropping is possible, text runs under image in all post. But you can add formatted
text HTML (from a designed html page) by clicking HTML and paste code there.
j) Scroll down and look on the right, you see the All Categories and under that 'Home', Tick the box, as here you want the post to appear.
k) Check all is right, decide if you want to allow comments etc. then click 'Publish' on the right.  Your post can now be seen in the blog index page.

You can maybe work at the link modification under permalink because  /yourname/home/home  is also odd.

Create every other site page like this, to appear under Categories.
Examine the page 'About' under 'Pages' on the home page. If you like create pages there too.

Now we create a menu section where you post external links:
a)  Enter admin
b) click links:  you see all the WP link in there. 
- To delete them select all, tick box under 'name'; bulk actions, delete, Apply.
- To modify the links and add your own, scroll over and click 'edit'.
- To add a new link, click 'add new', enter Link name (newstars), then URL http://,  scroll down and add
a category for the link to go under or modify the existing category 'Blogroll' (which you can't delete).
- select target  to open in new window for external pages (  _blank )
c) click Add link.  You can now see the Heading Links on home page with link name.

To edit the Links category 'Blogroll' or any other:
a) click 'Links -> links categories.
b) scroll over link, click edit en give it a new name - Top box (category) Uppercase 'B' and second box (slug) Lowercase 'b'

Now you see the menus on the home page. You can remove them, if you like:
a) enter admin
b) scroll down and click 'Appearance' at the arrow. Box drops down, select 'Widgets'.
c) You can now see Site bar on the right and the menus on the left. You can here add only the menus you want to see to the menu.
Lets add Links and Categories, which you just created links and pages in.
d) open site in new browser and see the two categories and all the rest is gone.  Your blog is ready.
add as many bit of menu on your menu as you like.
 
 
 

To change the Header name 'Category' on the Pages of WordPress, as it appears above your page names:
Dashboard -> Appearance  -> Widgets.
If Categories is already in the sidebar, just tick the arrow and the box drops down.  In the slot 'Title' add the title you want to show
and it is all fixed. Reload homepage and it shows.
 
 
 

Change Top Banner in WordPress Default Theme 

Default Theme:
a) enter admin, scroll down   -> Settings -> general.
b) remove blog Title and Tagline.  It is the image and text link you will still see if edit the  header.php  file first.

/blog/wp-content/themes/default/header.php

Dial into the directory with your FTP backup the file  header.php to your desktop into some directory or best, backup the whole blog directory to your drive using FTP, or only the themes directory.
 

c) right-click the file header.php, selct 'edit,'  (it opens in notepad) select all the text, cut it and paste it into Wordpad, or a HTML text editor, so that it lines up nicely and is readable.

d) use the seacrh function to search for the below lines, if you like:

-  Remove the text in bold color; keep in file, if you like.

 #page { background: url("<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/kubrickbg-<?php bloginfo('text_direction'); ?>.jpg") repeat-y top; border: none; }
<?php } else { // No sidebar ?>
 #page { background: url("<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/kubrickbgwide.jpg") repeat-y top; border: none; }
<?php } ?>
 

LINES LOOK LIKE THIS

 #page { background: url("<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?><?php bloginfo('text_direction'); ?>.jpg" repeat-y top; border: none; }
<?php } else { // No sidebar ?>
 #page { background: url("<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>) repeat-y top; border: none; }
<?php } ?>
 
 

e)  Find the below lines, they are at the bottom halve of the page: - Remove them and set aside also, for your own reference.

<div id="header" role="banner">
 <div id="headerimg">

f) Paste your banner where these two lines were. Mind to modify your image links to the directory where your images are,
../images/name.gif
..= out of this directory, / = into the next directory 

Your header is in  /yourname/blog/wp-content/themes/default/header.php
So you link your images like:
../themes/wp-content/blog/yourname/images/img.gif

This link recommended as it is executed faster than http://
 
 

Adding your own Footer at the bottom of the pages in WordPress

Default Theme:
In the same directory, right-click the footer file, remove text and paste your own bottom banner, if you like, with the below text in the file, save and all is done.  Only after I added the  brake commands <br><br> did the line centred on the page.

<br>
<br>
 <center><a href="http://wordpress.org/"target="new"> Powered by WordPress</a></center>
 
 

Change Top Banner in WordPress Classic Theme Header:

Replace the below line with your banner:
<h1 id="header"><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
 

Classic Theme Footer
<br>
<br>
 <center><a href="http://wordpress.org/"target="new"> Powered by WordPress</a></center>

Experiment with other themes. If you do and find out how to edit the header/footer, let me know and I will post it here for others to use.
 
 

Change your Theme  (Your page look/layout)
Appearance -> Themes  ->  add new  ->  features
http://whostars.com/yourblog/wp-admin/theme-install.php?tab=featured
Instal theme, select it under Appearance, Themes to use it.