Remove "Welcome to Drupal" message in new Drupal installation

Following are steps to remove text from front/home page. 

1. Create a new view using views module
2. Create a page display
3. Select Format "fields"
4. Set up filters, fields etc. which select empty result
5. Go to site information from admin menu, set the front page to view page path.
6. Add following code in page.tpl.php to hide the view title as well
   

   <?php if (!drupal_is_front_page()): ?>

   <?php if (!empty($title)): ?>

             <h1 class="page-header"><?php print $title; ?></h1>

              <?php endif;  endif; ?>