How do you add a blog to your homepage?

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I'm trying to get my home page to look like this:

http://www.trafficisgold.com/

Right now I have absolutely nothing on my front page.

Here is what I need:

I want the first block to always be a bit bigger than the rest similar to what is on the traffic is gold site. I just dont want all of the little tabs at the top such as blog twitter etc. I'm trying to use firebug using the inspecting elements function but I'm not really having any luck finding the info that I need.

Then I want the other blog spots to be the same as on the traffic is gold site or something similar. I like how you have to hit continue reading and it opens up a new page. Can somebody please grab this code and tell me where to put it? I don't want to copy his work, but I need something similar to it. Where would I paste the code when I get it?