Hiding Anonymous Welcome Page - Drupal

There are different methods for removing the Drupal anonymous “Welcome Page”  message.

1. COMMENT OUT AND HIDE THE CODE

For this  OPEN   drupal(YOUR DIRECTORY)/module/node/node.module

Fnd node_page_default() and comment the else part of if ($num_rows) using /* */ as shown below.

function node_page_default() {
  $result = pager_query(db_rewrite_sql('SELECT n.nid, n.sticky, n.created FROM {node} n WHERE n.promote = 1 AND n.status = 1 ORDER BY n.sticky DESC, n.created DESC'), variable_get('default_nodes_main', 10));

  $output = '';
  $num_rows = FALSE;
  while ($node = db_fetch_object($result)) {
    $output .= node_view(node_load($node->nid), 1);
    $num_rows = TRUE;
  }

  if ($num_rows) {
    $feed_url = url('rss.xml', array('absolute' => TRUE));
    drupal_add_feed($feed_url, variable_get('site_name', 'Drupal') .' '. t('RSS'));
    $output .= theme('pager', NULL, variable_get('default_nodes_main', 10));
  }
  else {/*
    $default_message = t('<h1 class="title">Welcome to your new Drupal website!</h1><p>Please follow these steps to set up and start using your website:</p>');
    $default_message .= '<ol>';

    $default_message .= '<li>'. t('<strong>Configure your website</strong> Once logged in, visit the <a href="@admin">administration section</a>, where you can <a href="@config">customize and configure</a> all aspects of your website.', array('@admin' => url('admin'), '@config' => url('admin/settings'))) .'</li>';
    $default_message .= '<li>'. t('<strong>Enable additional functionality</strong> Next, visit the <a href="@modules">module list</a> and enable features which suit your specific needs. You can find additional modules in the <a href="@download_modules">Drupal modules download section</a>.', array('@modules' => url('admin/build/modules'), '@download_modules' => 'http://drupal.org/project/modules')) .'</li>';
    $default_message .= '<li>'. t('<strong>Customize your website design</strong> To change the "look and feel" of your website, visit the <a href="@themes">themes section</a>. You may choose from one of the included themes or download additional themes from the <a href="@download_themes">Drupal themes download section</a>.', array('@themes' => url('admin/build/themes'), '@download_themes' => 'http://drupal.org/project/themes')) .'</li>';
    $default_message .= '<li>'. t('<strong>Start posting content</strong> Finally, you can <a href="@content">create content</a> for your website. This message will disappear once you have promoted a post to the front page.', array('@content' => url('node/add'))) .'</li>';
    $default_message .= '</ol>';
    $default_message .= '<p>'. t('For more information, please refer to the <a href="@help">help section</a>, or the <a href="@handbook">online Drupal handbooks</a>. You may also post at the <a href="@forum">Drupal forum</a>, or view the wide range of <a href="@support">other support options</a> available.', array('@help' => url('admin/help'), '@handbook' => 'http://drupal.org/handbooks', '@forum' => 'http://drupal.org/forum', '@support' => 'http://drupal.org/support')) .'</p>';

    $output = '

'. $default_message .'
';*/
  }
  drupal_set_title('');

  return $output;
}

2. HIDING USING CSS

just add the following in the style sheet site/all/themes[YOUR THEME]/style.css

#first-time {
  display: none;
}

3. ADDING A NODE AND PROMOTING TO FRONTPAGE

Login to the site as Administrator

Create a new page from admin > Content Management > create content > page Finally under publish check published and also promoted to the front page.

4. CHANGING THE SITE FRONTPAGE

Create a page and from admin > Site configuration > siteInformation change the default frontpage to the node id  of page created.