@ Doodlebug, you'll get there in the end mate, it just takes practice and patience, many a time I have thought, sod it, this is doing my head in, so I go and do something else and them come back to the site iw as working on.
As has been said here and on another topic, do a Google search for "free templates", there are millions of them out there, once you have one saved to your computer, go to the folder where it is, right click the file and open it using notepad, edit the defualt text and mess around with the html code to see what it does, it's the best way to learn, if you go wrong, hit the undo button and try again.
@ Mibut, yeah, got jlo in the meta tags, but I wasn't aware you needed different tags for each page, I have always used the same on all pages for all sites, also wasn't aware that words in the meta tags needed to be in the content of the page, although it does always seem the way that those words will get written somewhere on the page anyway.
Also, rewrite the content a little so as your pages are seen as original and not duplicate content.
How very dare you, it's all original :lol:, normally I would rewrite/reorder duplicate content, like if it was a single minisite page, bit I can't be bothered with this site as there will be a lot of text on it to sort through, plus some other sites use the same text, and they don't seem to have been penalised for it, so I'll leave it as it is for the time being and see how it gets on with Google.
I know people do say Google penalises duplicate content, but I'm not sure to what degree they do, for example, I have a scam information website, and most of the content on there is duplicated on another scam information website I was the admin of. Now, my site was Google page rank 1 a few months back, it then fell to zero and stayed that way for a quite while, I checked it recenty and it was still zero, checked again yesterday, and it's now page rank 3, and the other scam site is page rank 4, so it doesn't seem to have affected those at all, so I'm thinking duplicate content is not so much of a problem unless countless sites are doing it.