You decide to rearrange the items on the home page. Let's say you want a maximum of two intro texts, both in just one column. Apart from this, you would like to show a few hyperlinks to other articles that could be of interest to visitors browsing the home page. You may wonder where Joomla stores the home page settings. As we've seen in previous chapters, menu link settings often determine Joomla's page output—and this also holds for the Home link in the main menu. This menu link is of a specific Menu Item Type, Featured Articles. To change the appearance of the home page, we'll customize the Home menu link settings.
Navigate to Menus | Main Menu. In the Menu Manager, click on Home to enter the screen where you can edit the menu link settings.
Click the Advanced Options tab. In the Layout Options section, the current settings are shown as follows:
These are the "magic numbers" that determine the page lay-out. There's 1 leading...