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You need modules to ad content - or create your own blocks. To create a menu that is outside the module sturcture you will probably also need the multimenu module (ehich as a newbie i found diffficult to understand but you may do better
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So...look for the website smart factory and get the smart sections module - that will get you started with a module for some content pages. You can have a bio section, an other sections as you like...
Then look for multimenu...but make sure you find the latest version.
be patient with yourself...xoops is not like using frontpage or other web page writing programs...you need XOOPS core (you have that) and you need to learn about modules, blocks and themes...all in the FAQ!