Creating the Front Page
The moment you have been waiting for has finally arrived! We will be now creating the first page for our website. But before we make the first page we need to cover a couple of things. First you can control whether the front page data should be dynamic (changes constantly) or static (stays the same). The second thing is you can create different front pages for visitors, members, administrators, or any other user class you create. The fantastic thing is that you only need to enter the information for each, as the theme will take care of the layout for you. We will be covering adding content in detail in Chapter 7 so for now we will just whet our appetites by creating our front page.
Creating a Dynamic Front Page
When you click on Home in the administrative interface you are taken to the front page of the site. The text that you see on this page has been entered as a news item. We will learn more about configuring the news post in Chapter 7. For now we are going to...