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Now we will create the Home page. Delete the existing /Home page. Click the root and click New to create a new Page (menu item) document. Enter Home into the Page name field and choose the Create a blank page option.

 

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Click Save to create the page.

 

Now we will define a new HTML layout for our home page. Click the Home page. Switch to the Design tab and click the Edit layout (EditLayout) icon. Replace the default code with the following code:

 

<table style="width:100%;height:500px;border: 0px">
      <tr valign="top">
          <!-- left column -->
          <td style="width:280px" class="HomePageLeftColumn">                  
          </td>
          <!-- center column -->
          <td style="padding: 3px 5px 0px 5px;width:450px;">
            <cc1:CMSWebPartZone ID="zoneCenter" runat="server" />
      </td>
          <!-- right column -->
          <td style="padding: 3px 0px 0px 5px;width:270px">
            <cc1:CMSWebPartZone ID="zoneRight" runat="server" />                  
          </td>
      </tr>
</table>

 

Click Save to save the new layout and close the HTML layout editor. Add the Text -> Editable text web part into the zoneCenter web part zone. Set its properties:

 

•Editable region title: Main text

•Editable region height: 450

 

Click OK. Add another Text -> Editable text web part into the zoneRight web part zone and click OK. Set its properties:

 

•Editable region title: Contact text

•Editable region height: 100

 

Click OK. Select the Page tab. Now you can see that the page contains two editable regions. Enter the following text:

 

•Main text: Here comes the welcome text.

•Contact text: Call 800 111 2222

 

Click Save Save.

 

Click Live site and you will see the home page of your new website:

 

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Configuring the website home page

 

When a site visitor comes to the root of your website (e.g. to http://www.example.com), the system needs to know which page should be displayed by default as the home page. Go to Site Manager -> Settings, select My website in the Site drop-down menu, click the Content setting category and make sure the value of Default alias path is set to /Home, which is the alias path of our new home page. If not, please uncheck the Inherit from global settings box, enter the value and click Save Save.

 

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