I dug into the Joomla documentation a bit more last evening. The waters may be clearing some but they are still far too murky to see the bottom. Probably we would have to say that they are downright muddy.

I suspect that I have been in the wrong sections of the documentation to locate the information that I need. I did succeed in building a basic template that mirrors the KompoZer built home page. I think that I have too limited of an understanding of modules in Joomla. I will extend my research to the developer section of Joomla this evening.

Joomla would be very quick and easy to use if I wanted to use an existing template. I did find a third patty template that is set up much the way that I am thinking. It could probably be modified to do what I want to do. The developer is asking $90.00 for the license to use his work, and, from what I have seen so far, that may be a bargain. But, being a hobbyist in web development, that would defeat some of the purpose of this exercise. It would get the site up quickly, but what would I really have learned? At least some of the point of this hobby is to expand my horizons!