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You can start to narrow this down by disabling all of your plugins and switching to a default theme (default Genesis theme would be fine here as well). Whichever thing that you disable that makes the error go away is likely the culprit, and that will help you know what code to be looking at.
See what you need to disable (I'm guessing the theme, but you never know...) and continue the discussion from there.
This actually isn't a bug, but the Genesis blog page template is, for all intents and purposes, deprecated.
The settings in Genesis control the number of posts on a Page with a template set to the Genesis blog template.
The settings for WordPress control the page set as your posts page through the WordPress reading settings. *This is the way I'd recommend you set up your blog. Don't create a page, then make it the posts page by using the Genesis blog page template.
Hopefully that should give you a clearer picture as to what settings are controlling what.
Here's a more in-depth look than I've put together on the differences and the reason you shouldn't use the blog page template.
Here's a blog entry on how I optimized my site; perhaps these steps can help.
Change the padding on .menu-primary from margin: 20px auto; to margin:0px auto 20px;
However, I do wonder why this requires an image map; I'd think that this would be simpler to build using regular markup, without the image map. Just my $0.02.
This isn't all that Genesis related, but I'll give it a shot:
1. Completing something. The goal is to make significant progress on something during the day, hopefully a dev site, and hopefully at least enough progress to have a particular job back in the client's court (for feedback, for copy, etc.). And to keep my inbox cleared of all of the little things that come in all through the day.
2. Xero for accounting, Stripe for processing. Billing and invoicing is entirely through Xero, and that's how I check who's paid and who hasn't. I'm not worried about revenue – ever – in the short term, and I don't bill clients until they're happy. That means that sometimes it takes a while to get paid, but it also means that I always get paid in the end. Build lots of sites, and do a good job managing your clients, and you won't have trouble finding work (I still have yet to make that first cold call that I thought I'd be making from day 1).
3. I should outsource more. I usually outsource low-level tasks only. E.g. data entry if that's part of the scope, or possibly a set of graphics (though not the site design).
Could you check that link you'd sent? It's not resolving for me.
I'm guessing that you also (in the widget area) need to tell it what post to display. Just setting the headline won't make it show content unless you tell it what to display.
Try dropping "recent posts" into one of the sidebars and see if that gets you a bit closer to what you're looking for.
Maggie,
I haven't used the serenity theme specifically, but this likely is an issue of dynamic content vs. static content. The recent posts, in fact, are the dynamic content.
There are a number of ways you can fix this, however, whether by making the home page your "posts" page (settings > reading) or by adding a recent posts widget into any sidebar which shows up on the front page.
The Serenity theme setup instructions may also prove helpful.
Beautiful site!
I love those buttons on the front, and the smoothscroll. Very nice. How did you manage the slight fade-in on the background image on your subpages? I love that effect and would like to replicate that on my own sites.
Some feedback on the home page: it looks like the background image is pixelating a bit; it looks like that file is only 37kb, so you probably have a bit of room to use a slightly larger one. I also noticed that on mobile, the two home page buttons aren't quite centered.