Arch Linux with Gnome 3 - first experience

I've just installed Arch Linux (hurray!) on my laptop. Pretty lovely OS, too much documentation for it - that's great. Not many problems were with installing X-server and Gnome but the latest Gnome 3 is "a bit" confusing in usage for me - I'm not in the stream of the latest tendencies, so probably I've just lost the thing that this version of desktop manager is more applicable for tablets (correct me if I'm wrong). But it's usability is under doubt for me. I didn't find how to add new panel and how to add my icons to the existing panel (not sure whether it is a real "panel" like in previous versions). It's look is sort of "nyaaa!^_^" but not convenient for me. Currently tying to google how to resolve this, but if I don't find the solution I will be about to switch to KDE or something else. Don't want to spend my time having sex with the thing which should just be simple in use.