I saw a site somewhere recently that had a nice theme but the homepage was different to the rest of the site. There was no navigation at the top, but the rest of the theme was the same. How do you do that? Thanks, Jon
Sounds as if they possibly used the exclude comment to partially remove the interface. If you have an example it would be easier to demonstrate how it was done.
Here is an example: http://grantreviewsonline.com Notice the "Blog" page is in the grantreviewsonline.com/blog folder, but the theme is very similar to the home page.
There are multiple ways to go about this but it just looks like they've created a static page as the frontpage with the same styling elements as the blog's template and installed wordpress to run the blog in a directory named /blog off the of the root.
With WordPress you can create a page not a post, and choose to use it as the front page of the site/blog. Then you can create another page (with any name) with no content on it (just the title) to show the blog posts (the loop). After the two pages are created make the change in the Settings/Reading menu. You can also create a custom page template with any thing on it you want to display, or not to display. This takes a little advanced knowledge of WordPress coding. Once the custom page template is added to your themes directory it will appear in a drop-down menu when creating or editing a page.
I think for the specific example you showed that bloggerpreneur is right. He has a a main static page that borrows a lot of the styling from his blog's theme. While there are ways to do this in a similar manner in WP using the exclude option or by going through what Houdy mentioned above that doesn't look to be the case here.