This feels absolutely silly, but I can't seem to find a way to create a simple clean page as I want it in Joomla. (I'm new to Joomla.) I would just like a first landing page with a main description and a few links. I just keep getting caught between what is called a Menu Item, Main menu and my first so called featured article. The landing page in this Joomla template I use is a featured article but you can't write in it more than the menu title, then I created a new article. The thing is, by default, the look of the link from the main page to article looks illogical and unnecessary confusing.
Oh, this is not a good explanation, but do anyone here have some experience or tip regarding Joomla. I'm almost thinking of abandon it, cause I really just wanted to create a simple presentation site and some download possibilities and the Joomla world seem rather complex. Allthough I can see a lot of advantages too, but I not into coding and html at all, just need simple templates.

Finally got it!
It was because the thing that is called a "featured article" have to be considered both under Menu Manager: Menu Items, and under Edit Article. I'll try to conclude a little about joomla for stressed out beginners like me who stay up all night trying get to the hang of it.
This helped me understanding it, first create articles, that is sections of text you want on separate "pages". In joomla, article can be seen as a page.
Then think of menu, it may be enough with the Main Menu. The Menu Item that is the home, starting page are set to contain a featured article. That means that under Articles, you can set the text you want on your main page to be a Featured article, click the star. Then you can edit that article and hide all you don't need to be seen, plus you edit that featured article under Menu Manager: Menu Items.

When I'm able to publish links here, I can show what I mean, and also link to some good video tutorials I found.
One other tip about Joomla, think of extensions for other stuff you need. I found an extension to help get a background image very easily.

Edited September 20, 201312 yr by NickTP