actually, if you read the date on this post and my other posts, you will see I got to the point where I did try everything, and ended up finding out you are not able to do everything from the tools, that you do have to go into the html edit (ftp),

so the pull down does not do the most important thing and that is change the main page title...which is pretty significant in starting a webpage when you have never done so. The main page spot where it says "sale message goes here" is a very large portion of the standard page, and if I was going to do things the easy way, you still have to go into ftp to do so.

so it ends up not being as simple as looking around and feeling things out, which is what I have been doing for 32 hours now.
Frustrated by the fact the most simple and obvious altering of the main page cannot be done from the tools "define" menu.

I dont consider myself a beginner, but I truely am. So if you can tell me how to change the "sales message goes here" without switching into the ftp mode, please let me know. Or change the template..it cannot be done from the admin standard mode.....