OK,
I've played on the front page (yes, using a table), adding some colour and a hopefully prominent description of the next, upcoming meets.
If the consensus is that the original text-only front page was better, then we can revert - tonight's exercise has been mainly for me to familiarise myself with the syntax.
Peter.
P.S. I don't know whether it would have looked any good, but I might have experimented embedding some of the rest of the content from the front page as well but it's not possible to put constructs like unordered lists within a table, without the macro mentioned earlier.