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JimLL,
As far as I know, there is no really basic introduction to using Sigil, and I think I understand your frustration. For example, from experience, I know that Sigil cannot save html files, but rather only epubs. So when you've worked on a document in Sigil, when you decide to save you MUST save as epub with your chosen name. Thus the reason your saves did not work is that you were trying to save as an html file.
My suggestion is to learn by doing - start on a really simple document - perhaps only one paragraph using a text editor such as Open Office that creates nice html file from a wysiwig text containing italics, bold-face, etc. Import that into Sigil and work on it until you understand how Sigil is set-up. You'll need a css file eventually as part of the Sigil document and you can download a few epubs from MR and open and study them in Sigil as examples of coding and of css. With more experience you might eventually want to learn simple xhtml coding and not rely on an editor to do all your formatting - you don't need great skill with html coding unless you are working an a really complexly formatted document, and there are lots of intro material on this on the internet.
Good luck with your efforts!
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