Sorry you're having trouble.
When you say you're new to website building, what do you mean?
Have you even used HTML and CSS before, let alone PHP?
What theme are you using for your Concrete5 site?
Are you trying to build your own theme?

Concrete5 may be easier to build with than some other content management systems, but there is still definitely a learning curve. If you're a techy-type your patience will be rewarded greatly. If not, you may be better off finding a developer/designer to collaborate with to create your site. Then you can just enjoy the easy editing experience :-)

By new, I mean "new".
I'm a graphic designer, but I've only ever worked in print media, so it's completely maddening for me to not be able to create even the most basic website.

No HTML experience at all. I'm using the "Green Salad" theme, btw.

A "techy-type" I am definitely not. I'm a "visual" person, and this is nothing like any of the tools I'm used to using for ad layout/design.

I've spoken to a few "techy" acquaintances about my "issues", but nobody has heard of Concrete5, so I either need to figure this out, or pay with money I don't have to get a working website.

My site doesn't even need to look "great", it just needs to be viewable. Heck, I'd be thrilled if I could just find out how to get my other pages to be listed on the home page. The "design" part, I can figure out by trial and error.


ETA:
Here's where my site stands at the moment...
http://www.oakleaflawn.com

I feel your frustration. Starting anything new can be rough.

There is definitely a fundamental problem if pages aren't showing up in your navigation.
Chances are the page permissions are set to hide those new pages, or they haven't been approved yet, or you've checked the "hide from auto-nav" property.

If you want to send me a private message though my profile with your c5 login details I'd be willing to take a look for you.

To answer your original problem, it's possible that the pages are being added underneath other pages and hence the nav menu isn't showing them (because the nav menu is only showing top-level pages in your site, not sub-pages underneath the top-level pages). The trick is that clicking the "Add Page" button in the toolbar always adds the new page UNDER the page you're currently on. So if you want to add top-level pages (ones that will appear in the nav menu), make sure you're on the home page of the site before clicking "Add Page".

I would go to the sitemap (click "Dashboard", then "Sitemap" in the left sidebar) and click the little plus signs next to some of the pages in the list to expand them and show what other pages are beneath them. If you find a page that was put into the wrong place, you can drag its icon up onto "Home" and then choose "Move" at the prompt.

As for learning how to use the system better...
Kirk can definitely hook you up with some good guidance.
But I want to offer a suggestion that since you are new to HTML and CSS, and this is a personal site for you, you might be better off with a copy of Adobe Dreamweaver and building/editing your site that way (it's a desktop application -- gives you visual tools to lay out a site and put in content/images/etc. -- then you take all the files it saves and copy them up to your server via FTP). It's going to be very challenging to learn 3 new things at once (how to think about design in code, how HTML/CSS works, and how Concrete5 works).

However, if you're into the idea of actually learning this stuff, that's great (although I'd suggest learning how to code up plain HTML/CSS pages first, then come back to Concrete5 when you have an understanding of that).

I think Jordan and I read the intent differently. Perhaps because the post is in the Building with Concrete5 section it seems the intent is to be a builder.

I read it as "I want to learn how to manage my site"... more about editing... or, in this case, getting your pages to show up in the nav bar :-) I bet a quick look will clear that up fast.

But, yes, there are many things in play here. If you're interested in Concrete5, I suggest learning about how editing works first. You can definitely manage a site and never touch code.

Creating code and a truly custom look is a whole other ball of wax... not recommended until you have at least a basic understanding of how HTML and CSS work together.

Yes, perhaps I mistook the term "build/builder" as meaning something else.

Essentially, I AM the one "building" it, but my question may be more along the lines of "editing" as Kirk mentioned.

PM sent, BTW.
I tried digging around some more, but no luck.