How can I create a grid list of pages on a static page and not in a sidebar
 

Hi guys,

What I mean by this is I want to create something along these lines to go on my home page:

PAGE A (12) PAGE B (3) PAGE C (11) .................................................. ................ PAGE J (46)
.......PAGE N (10) etc.

Where PAGE A is the name of a static page and the number following it (12) is the number of child pages such that:

PAGE A may be GARDENING for example and Lawns, Hedges, Flowers are the titles of child pages of the GARDENING page where in this example there are (12) child pages.

In other words I am trying to create a directory almost of the static pages.

I am a newbe so I hope this is not too confusing.

Cheers,

Perhaps a sitemap, child pages, or even a menu plugin that provides you with a shortcode that you could put on the front page.

a quick google search using 'wordpress sitemap' found a plging that might work for you