Inariya

Attempted to start playing yesterday. I keep trying to mess around with the folders, including the 'recent' tab. Have tried multiple, different vendor items but it doesn't make sense in the way that the pages are -not- Demos... I get the feeling I'm missing something simple? Are they just supposed to be links to their in-game shops that they should have the free items -somewhere- in them? Feel like trying to pull teeth to find a guide for this. Coming up empty handed thus far. Any and all help to point me into a direction to find a guide as to how this process with Second Life even works would be great. Thanks for any help given/offered.