WordPress Question for All You Gurus

I’ve noticed many WP blogs not having the traditional blog layout on the home page with the sidebar. They are more like a standard web page with the blog portion being linked to in the menu.

My question is how do you achieve this?

Are they simply dropping in HTML into the post in the WP admin panel o the site to make the home page appear how they want?

That’s what is called “wordpress as a CMS ”. Basically it uses a blog engine (wordpress) to manage a website. Some developers use the custom fields to add extra content, others fetch content from other pages using wp tags. however what I do it’s replicate the text editor for every container that page has. As an example, for this site www.gooddata. com the homepage uses 6 text editors. Don’t take the route to add html into the text editor. It will bring you headaches since your client may accidentally delete the html while adding content.

That’s what I was looking for. I know someone who adds HTML into WP’s editor. But it seemed odd. But if people do that then I understand.

Am I right to assume even though it’s a headache you can do more than simply setting it to “Front Page” because you are adding HTML into the editor?

Thanks guys