Hi dhkensall,
From my view, a home page do nto have those sidebar widget kind of thing and it does not have those post-like interface. You can perhaps modify the index.php from your template to get rid of the sidebar and of course, you can add anything you like init such as NivoSlider which is pretty common nowadays on most of the template. Some social network links of yours, RSS subscribe, latest news perhaps?
You don’t really have to be a Master of CSS for the modification, you just need to know which is the code to be modify.
But make sure you make a backup copy on the files that you attempt to modify.
Good luck
Hi dhkendall,
As for me, I would probably look for themes that having a site design looks theme on the home page. Wheres you can really modified the theme to suit to your needs. One theme I can suggest you is the Freebiz theme where it is kind of clean and nice.
