How to show a list of article titles I am a bit confused. I understand what teaser does(shows the title and a preview and maybe some other things of an article). How do I not show a preview of the article. 

I just want title and possibly author. My aim is to have a frontpage/homepage that only shows a list of titles. 

I don't like the look of the article preview. 

Still sorta new to Drupal hoping for an in depth explanation as well.
Your best option is the Views Module:

You need Views if
You like the default front page view, but you find you want to sort it
differently.
You like the default taxonomy/term view, but you find you
want to sort it differently; for example, alphabetically.
You use /tracker, but you want to restrict it to posts of a certain type.
You like the idea of the 'article' module, but it doesn't display articles
the way you like.
You want a way to display a block with the 5 most
recent posts of some particular type. You want to provide 'unread
forum posts'.
You want a monthly archive similar to the typical
Movable Type/Wordpress archives that displays a link to the in the
form of &quot;Month, YYYY (X)&quot; where X is the number of posts that month,
and displays them in a block. The links lead to a simple list of posts
for that month. Views can do a lot more than that,
but those are some of the obvious uses of Views.


create a new view as a Page with Fields
add whichever fields you want displayed
assign that page address as the front page under /admin/config/system/site-information