Homepage vs Store page

Coming from the world of Wordpress I was used to a structure where the homepage (and also other pages such as manufacturers, about us, etc…) are “separated” from the shop part.

As I mentioned in the first message let’s say my domain is www.example.com, my shop would then be available at www.example.com/shop and from there all the specific categories, products and shop related pages (cart, checkout, etc…). So for instance the URL of a product would be www.example.com/shop/products/product-1.

I was wondering then if I could have something similar with Magento, or at least a “Shop Page” accessible through a link from the “Homepage”.

What I have done for the moment is to create a Page called Shop and set it as “Default Store View” in the “Page in Websites” setting tab, although I don’t know if it’s the right thing to do.