To launch these new pages, the final step is go to SETTINGS >> READING. This is where you tell WordPress that you have a new homepage & posts page (aka Blog) that it needs to point to. Click A STATIC PAGE and then from the drop down choose the HOME page you set up above (or whatever you named it). Make sure to save your changes!!
Do the same for your Blog page, once you have that created too! This tells WordPress by default when people go to your domain name they will see HOME and if they go to your blog page, they will see all of your posts.
**Notes. We created a new home page and inserted the template into it because this allows you to make edits without altering the original template itself. If you choose, in the future, to revert back to the original (demo version) – it is always there for you under Templates >> Saved Templates. This is also helpful if you ever make a mistake, the original template is available to review and fix those errors.