thanks again to you both, I just put the new site live and did as you said jonradio, worked like a charm.
site is http://www.roydresselphoto.com
I still need a few tweaks to some of the pages but it's good to go.
this had been a fun experience, spent the last four days figuring out how this whole word press system works and making decisions on the site structure and what pages I wanted to keep on the new site. I have a couple more web sites of my own I need to re do in word press.