Creating a traditional home page

Another method of creating a home page for Artisan Bakers Collective is to create a specific node in Drupal, and then specify that node as the home page. Let's walk through this process now and then you will have two home page options to present your clients with.

The first step in creating a traditional home page is to create a Basic page that will serve as the foundation for our home page. We will create the page in exactly the same way as we created the About Us page. Click on your Add content link and then click on the Basic page link. The Basic page form will load.

For this specific example of a home page using the Basic page type let's enter the text as shown in the following screenshot. Of course, you can enter any text you have that meets your client's requirements:

Select the URL path settings tab and type in home page as the path alias for this node. Then click on Save. The Basic page type does not come with an image field by default, so we'll need...