Static homepage – advice needed

Hi All,

I’ve recently set up a personal blog with WordPress, and it works like a dream.

Now I’m trying to set up a business blog, but this time I want the homepage to be static.

My issue is that I can set any static page to be the homepage, so if for example I decide “About” as the static homepage, but this causes duplication of that page. There are now 2 pages with the same content, one at http://www.example.com and one at http://www.example.com/about. There is also duplication in the navigation bar, with both “Home” and “About” showing the same content.

Is there a way to avoid this duplication?

Ideally I’d like to homepage to just have one nag bar option pointing at it.