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 the previous chapters, the menu link settings often determine Joomla's page output; this also holds for the Home link in the main menu. This menu link is for a specific menu item type: Featured Articles. To change the appearance of the home page, we'll customize the Home menu link settings as follows:
Navigate to Menus | Main Menu. In Menu Manager, click on Home to enter the screen where you can edit the menu link settings.
Click on the Layout tab. The current settings are shown in the following screenshot:
These are the magic numbers that determine the home page's layout. As shown in the...