Thanks for the compliments. I’m glad you like the site. WordPress is awesome. In addition to the technology, the user community is amazing. I’m happy to help in answering your questions.

1. Category Archives
This is done using conditional (if then) formatting. Each theme is different but if you open your archive.php page you will likely see some conditions dependent upon the type of archive it is. I simply added another condition to test if the page was a particular category
< ?php if (is_category('category name')) { ?>
I then inserted my HTML code for the intro text and also removed the word “Archive” as I didn’t want that page to look like an archive page.

2. External Links
I used a plugin called “Page Links To”. You create a page which appears in your navigation and then in the page options you can specify a URL that the page links to. You can also set the page to open in a new window. Great plugin. The open in a new window is a new feature recently added that was a big improvement.

I hope this information was helpful.
Let me know if you have any additional questions.

This looks great! I like the simple design/navigation and quotes on the sidebar. I’m doing a site in WordPress and was wondering 2 things if you have the time…

1. How did you handle category archives? For example http://coachk.com/category/coach-k-stories/ has a little intro text and http://coachk.com/category/coach-k-news/ does not, but has a little “Archive” note at the top. Did you just do that using category descriptions, a plugin, or did you just customize the archive page in your theme?

2. How did you get external links to goduke.com in your navigation (especially opening in a new window)? That’s a cool trick!

Thanks for any inside info

See you