Re: WP advice

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As I understand it, your index page is not a blog?

If I’m right, I would suggest you create a new custom page template (read the codex here) for your front page. In the WP admin area, find the page you are using as a front page and set its Page Template to the new custom one you just created. To make it easier, copy your page.php file, add this:

Code:

to the top, and edit the copy to your liking. :)

As for #2, no, you don’t have to create a separate page for each. Read up on conditional tags instead.