In Building the DFC site the Fullscreen them Graph Paper Press Template I used posed some pretty interesting dilemmas...
First of all the home page or landing page rules the site. That's core to understanding the site because all organization bows the the restrictions imposed by this home pages which pulls images for display. It;s the first thing a visitor to the site sees so in this case, this page gets to be the big boss.
If you look at the home screen you will see two sets of thumbnails. At top are movie thumbnails, and at bottom are post thumbnails. This segregation of "page" and "post" images feeding into each area allows me to add images and updates to each location and have some sway over where the images go. Generically this template pulls images from only posts.
The second factor about the home page that has influenced the organization of the site is that the images on the home page appear in order from most rest to last. That means if you put up an image it will pop up on the home page. But what if you don't want the new image on the home page? The nice part is that pages and posts are easy to organize by editing publish dates and in some cases using plugins to order pages.
For more info about how I ordered pages ( with the home page in mind all the while) see the post in this blog posts titled:
Adding order to posts in Wordpress
and
Organizing pages via Wordpress plugin
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