Hey thanks for that info.
My code xhtml/css is validating and is clean.
It is very simple, content (news box which sits inside content), sidebar and footer
I will try and have on the front page a little news box highlighting the latest three news-blog entries, so what you have mentioned here is something I will need to learn about.
When I look in the default theme folder there is a lot of files? do I need them all, as the site I will make want allow for comments, its just going to be for a basic 5-8page website that can use the CMS feature of WP, I thought for learning WP it is best to start out small