In this chapter, you've learned all about two types of pages that Joomla! uses to draw the visitor towards the actual content of your site: home pages and overview pages.
When you want to set the layout and arrangement of the Front Page contents, you change the settings of the Main Menu Home link. These allow you to determine how many introductory article texts the home page shows, and how they are laid out.
When you want a completely different home page, you can choose not to use the Front Page settings. You can set any Main Menu item to be the default home page contents.
To show your visitor the contents of a section or category, you'll create menu links to section and category overview pages. These provide an intermediate level between the home page and content pages; they're like "second level home pages".
There are two main formats for overview pages, Blog Layout and List Layout.
The Blog Layout is more versatile and is focused on content. It provides a taste of the article content...