So I had been styling this site with fair amount of ease and then it came time to put my posts into some sort of organization. Thats when things came unhinged. The theme I was using, Thematic, wasn’t going to easily allow me to make my pages into blog -like displays. You can, and I had in the past, cheated this by replacing the header navs “Pages” navigation buttons with “Categories” navigation.
Pages are more for static pages like About Us or Contact while Categories are labels applied to Posts. By linking a page to display a category of posts it creates the illusion of separate blogs. So now the Capstone Page displays all the posts in the Capstone category, as well as they are display on the Home page (along with all other posts). Its the same thing only different, and better.
Thematic theme was not displaying the contents of the posts, only the title of the posts when I made them display a given Category. One would have to click on the post to actually view it. Thats far to cumbersome! I also could not figure out the PHP they used, its much different than the other themes I had used in the past.
The navigation is all set, but now I have to go back and re-style everything as the CSS is totally different than the Thematic CSS! What a day!