Non-blog main page with menu pointing to 3 blogs

I want to build a website whose main page doesn’t look like a blog; so I want to remove the code for the comments, etc. But I also want to create 3 internal links (pages) that are blogs, and present them as a menu on the right side of the main page.
1. Is that possible using WordPress?
2. Is there a theme that would make it easy to do? I am a novice at PHP, and have done some basic programming in HTML.
3. I need to have “about” and “contact” subpages for each page, including the main one.
4. I want the user to be able to click on a link in each subpage (or at the header) to go back to “Home.”
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
John