new to wordpress and want to design a website like the one shown in link

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  xanderss · Member · Jul 1, 2013 at 12:17 pm

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  Hi everyone,
  I am new to wordpress and to this forum,so a big hellooo to all my new mates. :-)
  As the title makes it clear,i am completely new to wordpress. I wanna make a tutorial/informative website like this one.
  http://www.electronics-tutorials.ws. I want a home page showing different topics,like that website have for example-ac theory,amplifiers etc.
  Also I would like to associate a small image with each topic,like most of the online stores do.
  I basically want to ask that is possible to make such a kind of website using wordpress.
  thanks in advance for any help :-)

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  supportbot · Member · Jul 1, 2013 at 12:17 pm

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  tandava108 · Member · Jul 1, 2013 at 12:35 pm

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  I thnk the closest you can get is with a theme that puts images on the index page like Hatch , TheStyle, or Visual.

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  justpi · Member · Jul 1, 2013 at 12:45 pm

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  Or you can set a static page as your front (possible on all themes), and insert thumbnails that link to other static pages or posts or post categories.

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  tandava108 · Member · Jul 1, 2013 at 1:10 pm

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  Good idea justpi – that would certainly give you the best flexibility, you could make it look much more like the linked site. The downside is it would be more work, you would have to edit it manually when you wanted to change the list of pages/posts.

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  xanderss · Member · Jul 2, 2013 at 12:05 pm

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  thanks tandava108 and justpi for your valuable input :-)
  The themes which tanadava108 showed are really nice and I guess that is what I needed.
  One thing i would like to know that is it possible to have comments sections on static pages.This is just to keep the readers more involved and interactive.
  thanks again :-)

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 2, 2013 at 12:22 pm

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  Yes, it is. In fact, it’s the default.

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  xanderss · Member · Jul 7, 2013 at 2:34 pm

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  Thanks raincoaster for your input.
  I just installed the ‘visual’ theme and I am facing a little problem .
  When I am configuring the home page as static page, it just allows me to put a single page. The grid like appearnce works only if I keep my home page as recent posts page. So I was wondering if its possible to have that grid like appeance as static page and each ‘box’ would link to a static page.thanks in advance for any help :-)

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  auxclass · Member · Jul 7, 2013 at 3:25 pm

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  @xanderss – would you please post a link to the blog you need help with – that will help to give you accurate help – you have not specified a blog address

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  xanderss · Member · Jul 8, 2013 at 8:18 pm

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  hi auxclass
  actually i am new to wordpress and so i decided to install wordpress on my pc first and then go online.
  here is the screenshot of my pc and I hope it makes it clear somewhat to understand what i want
  

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 8, 2013 at 8:28 pm

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  Then we cannot help you and you are in the wrong forum. That version of the software is not compatible with WordPress.com and you need to be at WordPress.ORG, as the support bot suggested days ago.