Paula,

I think you are going to have to do one of two things. Either get someone to help you personally who knows about the page you have or get a good book like Sitepoint's Build Your Own Web Site the Right Way (much cheaper from Amazon), take a couple of weeks to study it and then redo your site from the ground up.

I'm imagining that you just got a template of some kind. From your questions I can only believe that you didn't do it yourself unless it is with a very quirky WYSIWYG program. It does use xhtml code which one would think is good, but it has some very terrible code like its positioning approach.

You can't insert additional links, for instance, as is being recommended without changing a host of positioning codes. Furthermore, if you have poor eyesight and increase the type size even a little, all kinds of things overlap. Frankly, even if you manage to make a few additions you are going to be fighting an unending battle with this setup.

Please don't be discouraged. My first experience was one of wasting a lot of time and money learning html from highly promoted books that were so outdated I had to unlearn before I could learn. I threw away the books and cd's because I wouldn't even give them away. If you are serious about this work you will want to learn.

Good Success!

James