home page of my site. Uses multiple queries, but I think there is a better way.

home.php

<?php get_header() ?>
<!-- generated with home.php -->

	<div id="home-banner">
		<?php putRevSlider("tsleadin") ?>
				
	</div><!-- #home-banner-->

	<div id="home-container">
		
		<div id="home-feature">
			<h1>Featured Work</h1>
			<?php $posts = query_posts( "tag=featured&posts_per_page=8" ); ?>

			<?php if( $posts ) : ?>
			<ul class="work-list">
			<?php foreach( $posts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?>
			<li>
			<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
				<?php
					#If there is a post thumbnail , it will display. If not it is the thumb function. These
					# can be edited in the functions.php file.

					if(has_post_thumbnail()){
						the_post_thumbnail();
					}
					else{

					the_excerpt();

				}
				?></a>
			<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><span class="title"><?php the_title(); /*adding the title*/ ?></span></a>
			</li>
			<?php endforeach; ?>
			</ul> 
			<?php endif; ?>
		</div><!-- #home-feature-->

		<div id="home-about">
			<h1>About Steve</h1>
			<!-- snip
			
			
			SOME TEXT GOES HERE…
			
			
			
			--> 
		</div><!--#home-about-->
		
		
		
		<div id="home-work">
			<h1>Recent Work</h1>
			<?php $posts = query_posts( "cat=9&posts_per_page=8" ); ?>

			<?php if( $posts ) : ?>
			<ul class="work-list">
			<?php foreach( $posts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?>
			<li>
			<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
			
			<?php
				#If there is a post thumbnail , it will display. If not it is the thumb function. These
				# can be edited in the functions.php file.
				
				if(has_post_thumbnail()){
					the_post_thumbnail();
				}
				else{
					
				the_excerpt();
				
			}
			?></a>
			<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><span class="title"><?php the_title(); ?></span></a>
			</li>
			<?php endforeach; ?>
			</ul> 
			<?php endif; ?>
		</div><!-- #home-work-->


		
		<div id="home-loop">
		<h1>Recent News</h1>
		
		<?php get_sidebar() ?>
		<div id="content">

		<?php $posts = query_posts( "cat=1&posts_per_page=10" ); /* calling some news posts */ ?>
		<?php if( $posts ) : ?> 
		
		<?php foreach( $posts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?>
		<div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" class="post">
			<h2 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

			<div class="date"><?php the_date(); ?></div>
			<div class="meta"><?php _e(""); ?> <?php edit_post_link(); ?></div>

			<div class="storycontent">
			<?php the_content('Read on...'); ?>
			</div><!-- .storycontent -->

			<div class="horiz-bar">
			<img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/end-post.gif" height="2" width="162" alt="--" />
			<?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
			</div><!-- .horiz-bar -->
		</div><!-- #post-<?php the_ID(); ?> .post -->
		<?php endforeach; ?>
		<?php endif; ?>
		<div id="nav-below">
			<div class="center">
				<?php posts_nav_link(' || ', __('&laquo; Previous'), __('Next &raquo;')); ?>
			</div><!-- #center -->
		</div><!--#nav-below"-->
		</div><!--#content-->
		
	</div>	<!-- #home-loop -->
	


<?php get_footer(); ?>
	</div>
</div>

</body>
</html>