In any normal e-commerce website, it is a good thing to obviously show which products are new. This way you attract attention of your regular visitors and maybe you sell more and you extend the lifetime customer value. Anyway, it is pretty normal to put these new products in front of others in the catalog, or at least to make them conspicuous.
Although Magento allows you to configure start and end dates for a product in order to show it as new, the default Magento template doesn't show it. This is the goal of this mini-tutorial : to show you how to show new products among old ones in a category list.
On a website that uses Magento as CMS, the price will show up (by default) in layer navigation, left column. Price layer navigation is a nice feature of Magento, but it may not always be something you need for your e-commerce. Especially if most of your products have a similar price.
Here is a mini-tutorial to know how to remove prices in layer navigation!
Magento is a great e-commerce CMS, with tons of incredible possibilities.