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The "Custom Redirects" feature is just what you need, to create a static home page.

1. Setup a Static Page. Use the dashboard Pages wizard, and make a "New page".
2. Use the "Custom Redirects" dashboard wizard, and redirect from the Home page to the new Static page.
3. Work on the static home page, and make it attractive.

I setup a test blog - Nitecruzr Redirected Home Page Test, and added a Static page - "Static Home Page".

nitecruzr-test-redirected-homepage.blogspot.com/p/static-home-page.html

Having setup the static page, I redirected the Home page to the static page, using the "Search preferences" - "Custom Redirects" feature.

• From: /
• To: /p/static-home-page.html
• Permanent: Yes

Edit "Custom Redirects".

1. Enter "From:" as "/".
2. Enter "To:" as "/p/static-home-page.html".
3. Select "Permanent".
4. Click the "Save" link.
5. Hit the "Save changes" button.

And, that is it. You can see my test blog, as a basic demonstration.

Note that just as easily as redirecting the home page to any static page, you can redirect to any dynamic page (aka a "post"). So, you can pin a post to the main page, using Custom Redirects.

Once the "Home" page / tab is static, you can index the posts using any sidebar gadget - such as an Archive or Label index gadget. Or, you can index posts, as if they were pages.

• Publish your posts to a given label - I used "Posts".
• Add a label search entry, as a new "external link", to "Configure Page List".

Thus my Pages entry, "Posts" - as a blog within a blog.

Also, a static home page does not have to be just text. You can add a gadget, as part of any static page. 

Now, anybody can have a blog with a static home page, in 10 minutes (don't overlook steps #3 and #4, above - as I did, the first time). Click here, for more examples.