[Just rephrasing the title of the thread given where the question went eventually. Original Q was as follows. Hmm, OK, the title change didn't take!]

I am sure the answer is obvious; just having a blonde moment, lol.

TIA
Kiwi

One of the things I like about Atahualpa is the documentation is built into the theme options. What other kind of documentation are you looking for?

Also there is a woman who wrote a Atahualpa101 guide - do a google search for 'carol smith atahualpa'

Thanks, miles & juggledad.

I found the 101 guide but it told me no more than I worked out from the inbuilt help within the menus.

Maybe I need another thread/question instead then ... I had a couple of miscellaneous questions, and in the end they may be html and css questions, not WP/Atahualpa ...

First, I see there is a "template" option for individual pages, but I am not sure whether there are templates available, or how you create and save one you want to use, or what ... However, this is a minor question and may not help me as much as the one that is really baffling me now ...

Second, I am trying to work out how to set up a front page for a static website (not a blog) that has four largish rectangular rounded edge buttons (2 x 2 layout) and within each button I have a pic/graphic on the right and a submenu of hyperlinks to other pages on the left that I can edit if I need to. I've attached a shot of a draft button so you can see what I mean.

I am not sure if there are any widgets or options within Atahualpa or WP that I can use to do this, or whether it's a "you need to either go learn some more advanced html and css, or get someone to make it for you" situation.

I'm only basically literate in HTML (tables and stuff, not divs) and my limits in css are following instructions to paste code someone else has created.

I've searched the web for how-to's but am not finding anything at my level (it's either too basic and doesn't cover what I need or it's way over my head).

I've found rounded corner box generators, thought it would be progress if I could generate just one (then I could later try and figure out how to make more, at different places on a page), but part of the instructions say put these rounded corner images in the same folder as the html page, or if you don't, change the path in the css to reflect where you put them. So I put them in the images folder and changed the path to that (copied it off my FTP uploader), but I've obviously got that wrong because the border doesn't show up.

Anyway, FWIW here's what the HTML generator did:

<div class="roundedcornr_box_642855">
<div class="roundedcornr_top_642855"></div>
<div class="roundedcornr_content_642855">

insert content

</div>
<div class="roundedcornr_bottom_642855"></div>
</div>

and then I had to put some css into the style sheet,

which I did via ATO>>CSS inserts, as follows:

.roundedcornr_box_642855 {
background: url(/htdocs/wp-content/themes/atahualpa/images/roundedcornr_642855_tl.png) no-repeat top left;
}
.roundedcornr_top_642855 {
background: url(/htdocs/wp-content/themes/atahualpa/images/roundedcornr_642855_tr.png) no-repeat top right;
}
.roundedcornr_bottom_642855 {
background: url(/htdocs/wp-content/themes/atahualpa/images/roundedcornr_642855_bl.png) no-repeat bottom left;
}
.roundedcornr_bottom_642855 div {
background: url(/htdocs/wp-content/themes/atahualpa/images/roundedcornr_642855_br.png) no-repeat bottom right;
}
.roundedcornr_content_642855 {
background: url(/htdocs/wp-content/themes/atahualpa/images/roundedcornr_642855_r.png) top right repeat-y;
}

.roundedcornr_top_642855 div,.roundedcornr_top_642855,
.roundedcornr_bottom_642855 div, .roundedcornr_bottom_642855 {
width: 100%;
height: 15px;
font-size: 1px;
}
.roundedcornr_content_642855, .roundedcornr_bottom_642855 {
margin-top: -19px;
}
.roundedcornr_content_642855 { padding: 0 15px; }

Heaven knows what's wrong with it all, and I suppose if I was clever I'd just outsource it, but I am one of these people that likes to at least have some understanding of what my web pages are really doing in case anything goes wrong ...

First, I see there is a "template" option for individual pages, but I am not sure whether there are templates available,

'Page' templates are a WordPress feature - as of 3.7.7 there is one page template provided with the theme. The 'multi-column/custom query' template. You are also free to code your own.

You can create a box with rounded corners with CSS - however the rounded corners won't show in IE8 and earlier. A correction on your termonology, you want a BOX with a graphic and some menu items - a button is ment to be pushed, so you wouldn't have several links in a button.

This is possible to do with HTML and CSS and there are several wys to do it

build a two column, two row table in html and have each cell one of the rounded boxes with the image and menu in it

you could add some new widget areas to the page and put in text widgets with th ecode you need

My suggestion is to build the HTML/CSS to create one box the wy you want it, then clone that code.

Thanks, juggledad, that makes sense, and thanks for the terminology correction.

Now I just have to work out how to do it.

I did try to change the title of this thread but it wouldn't let me; realized I was in the wrong forum to be asking the question I ended up asking, so reposted in the page/post slot so the answer would be filed in a more appropriate area, but I see that was unacceptable.

Thanks anyway