Frontpage issue

Hi,
I’m making site and using WP as CMS.
Highlander
Problem is – on front page I want several things. First of all – welcome message, which now is as page Welcome to Highlander travel!
Second section if hot offers, which now you can see on home.
and the last section should be “news” – new topicks list with dates.
and have no idea how to do it.
Currently in reading settings I put on Front page displays Your latest posts, and using plugin frontpage manager put there articles from “news” category. I copied index.php to home.php and modified it a bit to make sections. but no idea how to put the rest.
Please help in this issue.
And btw, I don’t want Welcome to Highlander travel! to be shown in navigation menu, it should be in home.