Noob in need of some serious help. SO FRUSTRATED!

I do not know what I’m doing. The farthest I have gotten with wordpress was getting someone else to install it for me. I have been reading through the docs on the site (WordPress lessons, working with wordpress, design & layout, etc.). I feel like almost every link on this site leads me to another list of links and it is like a bottomless pit of link fractals & none of it makes sense.

I guess my problems begin with me not being able to get into this so-called “administration panel”. They even show me a screen grab of what it will supposedly look like: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Administration_Panels
It tells me what it is and what it can do, but not how to access it.

I don’t even want a complicated site! Just a nice clean background with a couple of links on the side, my logo at the top, and some text in the middle! That’s it!

Somebody help me please!