Modifying the home page structure

Now you will learn how you can modify the home page structure. We will replace the polls on the left with a static text.

Click Home in the content tree and click the Design tab. Right-click the Poll web part and click remove and confirm the action.

Now click the plus icon in the zoneLeft zone.

The Select web part dialog opens. Choose web part Text -> Static text and click OK.

The web part is added to the web part zone and the Web part properties dialog opens. Enter the following text in the Text property:

The dialog now looks like this:

Click OK to save changes. Click Live site in the main toolbar and see the new design of the home page:

Now when you click Edit in the main toolbar, the home page is displayed in the editing mode, but the Welcome to our site text cannot be edited, since it is displayed using the Static text web part that doesn't enable content editors to edit the text (the text can be edited only by the web developer). If you want to create an editable region, you would need to add the Editable text web part.

You have learned how to modify the structure of an existing page template and how to work with web parts.