Basic, Basic - Remove "Shopping Cart" Field from Homepage

Hello - very new and am looking through the various guides and resources. I've built a fairly decent site with ZenCart before, this is my first Drupal project so I appreciate the help. The site I'm going to work on was thus far set up by a paid developer and I'm going to get involved.

I'm trying to figure learn my way around the Admin Area - I need the path to configure the home page's display of the shopping cart link.

Basically I want:

1. Shopping Cart Link off of the home page
2. Home page displays re-centered without the cart

If someone has the path for this type of thing, that would help me get started. Thanks!