pls help an idiot forum user...

Not too sure what you are doing... but guess you need to look for the menu line about a querter of the way down from the top where the first entry is something like "Latest Posts" and click on that.. Play around with it, it won't break (some would say it's already well broken). You managed to post so must have more than a little idea what you are doing :)

At the bottom of my 'first' page it lists the 'On Line Users'.  Above that listing is a blue box that says [in my case] "1 of 183" - indicating its page 1 of 183.  Next to that is a 'double arrow symbol' [>>] - click that symbol to go to the next page. If that doesn't work, there is another way.  Look at the address box at the top of the page.  It will say http://www.italymag.co.uk/   . To get to page 2, simply add   ?page=1   to the end of this address  [so you get;-   http://www.italymag.co.uk/?page=1  , and hit Return or Refresh.  Changing the 1 to a 2 takes you to page 3, and so on

When offline I had the same problem ie click on the arrows to go to the previous page and all that happens it that the last post on page 1 opens up. However, when online it works fine and you do go back a page.

I too have the same problem.  Log/sign in, and the website then works correctly.