Category posts on Front page and All on a second page

I’m new to creating a wordpress themes and I am trying to figure a few things out. This is a page for one of my employer’s publications.

On the front page of the site I would like to have 2 posts displayed from the Feature category (I’ve successfully done this). This leads to my problem – I want to set-up a page that will feature all of the posts as a link in our menu. I got one page to sort of work (that I created through the wp admin) – but it’s showing the same as the front page (not quite sure why – I’m not sure why it’s even doing this).

I have a home.php page for the Front and I also have index.php and page.php. The main difference between home and the others is that I put a query_posts in the loop. Any help on this would be appreciated.

Also, on the menu I’ve tried setting up a conditional to set the class to display different CSS, but it doesn’t seem to want to work. I’ve pulled it strait from the Codex (I tried both is_home() and is_front_page() to no avail).

Thanks for the help in advance.