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I have also found no problem in creating a homepage using wordpress, there are a few excelent plugins available for you to do this.

There is one small gripe I do have and that is you may have to disable the wysiwyg editor, as with most of these editors they tend to rewrite your code in a less than satisfactory way.

I have however been successful in using css on pages and also find that by installing something like the execphp plugin you can then take advantage of the output from other plugins. To do things like create tag clouds on your homepage.

Good luck, there are hundreds of good wordpress themes available, alsthough I would recomend making your own or adapting an existing one to make your blog/website look original. If you do use a pre made theme then I would also recomend looking for one that is widget enabled.