Hey HandySolo,
Your first comment was the solution. I added WWW to the fields and that did the trick. Now I can get on with customizing.
Many thanks for the super-quick reply. I was expecting to wait a couple days for anyone to respond! 🙂
actually.. the weird thing is that Bluehost drops the “www” from the URL. it doesnt allow me to correct/edit/etc this. i have to go into the address bar and insert the “www” to get the page to render.
this , by the way, happened with the other blog installs.
http://www.text4deaf.com/blog