We have to apologise, but in this version there's no way to make the start really quick. Perhaps the best (well, quickest) thing you can do is to build Thalassa, then go to the examples/ subdirectory, pick one of the templates available there, make a copy of it and follow the instructions given in the README file, found in the template's directory.

As of now, only two templates are available, Smoky and Agenda. Thalassa official website has a gallery of screenshots, which may help to decide which template and color scheme to use.

Despite the templates are customizable, provide several color schemes each, and Agenda lets (to some extent) modify the screen layout, yet they may appear not what you want. Thalassa itself can generate more or less anything — that is, any static web site you can imagine; well, it can even generate arbitrary texts, not only HTML. However, we have to admit it takes a lot of effort to learn Thalassa to the level where one can go without templates.

So, if both templates don't fit your needs, try generating and modifying other sites found within the examples/ directory. BTW, the documentation you're reading is made of sources found under examples/thalassa/.

There's also a kind of step-by-step instruction on setting up Apache to server Thalassa-based sites. You might want to check it as well.