Creating Static Front Page Error

Hello, I hope this hasn’t been asked before, if it has please accept my apology’s and point me in the right direction.

I would like to have the last five blog posts displayed on my homepage (gwplus.net) I was using This Guide and when ever I open the page, I get this error:

1. get_results(“SELECT ID,post_title FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status= \”publish\” ORDER BY ‘ID’ DESC LIMIT “.$how_many); foreach($news as $np){ print (“ID); print (“\”>$np->post_title
“); } ?>

Could anyone please tell me where the problem is and how I can fix it