Working with the template
The layout features one big image called "front.jpg", which you can easily replace with your own header. The default image shows a snowy street in Porjus (northern Sweden), where I grew up. All sections of this site has filler content, but you can use a regular text editor to replace the default content with your own texts and images. Add your own page title, your own slogan, some images and some links - and you can have a website ready without having to worry about the design.
The main navigation menu is an unsorted list, where each list item has been styled to be a button. There are lots of ways to style lists for navigation, but I've kept things simple for this layout. Adding "that little extra" is up to you!
Content Elements
Websites built with TYPO3 are usually constructed by a number of "content elements" which are put together in a certain order or nested structure.
Each content element has a type. The type of the element determines what output it generates. The most popular types of content elements are "Text", "Text w/Image", "Search", "Login", "Insert Plugin" etc.
By combining the various content elements you can create almost any page layout you wish in a very flexible way but still with a lot of control over the content.
On the other hand you also have to deal with all the possible variations of content elements when you design a website. In order to help you design the stylesheet for your website all the subpages to this page contains various content element types and within each type some variations.