Additional Pages

Hi, I just wanted to ask if you can you prevent the ‘Pages’ category from appearing in your sidebar automatically. I don’t know if this has been asked before, or if the solution is just merely going into your index.php file and deleting a line, either way, thanks in advance 🙂

Or better yet, could someone direct me to a page that’ll explain how to add free standing content to your blog, but using the same template?