Creating a new theme and pages wont show

Hi,

I’m trying to create a theme on WordPress for the first time and I’ve followed (for the most part) this tutorial, i just ignored the menu and sidebar parts, because I’m not having a sidebar and I’ve put the menu into the index.php file, not sure if that was a good idea but hey, I’m still learning, which is why I’m here.

I don’t know what to put into the index.php file to make the pages show in the main content area. From what I saw (or skimmed) on the tutorial they didn’t really cover it.

Any help would be appreciated. Sorry if I haven’t been very clear.