[support] Creating a blog using Drupal 7

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Hi,  I'm rather new to Drupal and would like to create a blog and not 
have my article list be the home page.  I would like to designate 
another page called "blog", or any name I select, to be the listing 
page.

I am reading that the best way to do so is to create a "blog" content 
type.  I am reading the blog module is not the best approach and this 
module will be removed in version 8.

I'm thinking I need two things:

1) blog content type
2) blog listing page - do I need to create this or is this automatically 
created as part of the creation of the content type.

If there is a better solution, please advise.

Any guidance is much appreciated.

Thanks!!

Keith