Hi Regina,
I went ahead and split off your post to another Topic so that I can just use it as the tutorial. I hope this helps.
Whenever you are in a forum and not looking at any one specific Topic then you have a menu of options just above the list of Topics.
Your options are surrounded by two question marks which give you a hint. What is it that you want to do here? See the red arrow below in the example.

Well if you want to post something New then you would choose "New Topic".
When you choose to post a new topic you will be able to add your own special unique post to the list of topics just like you see above.
I hope this helps you Regina.
Let me know if you need any further help.
Salvatore
Moderator/Administrator