There are times when you want a static page as the home page on your Joomla website. If you are selling products, you may want to emphasize the benefits of particular products, without the distraction of all the other associated  iems that go with a dynamic page. Thus, you’re best off creating a special static page, and setting that as your front page in Joomla.

Here’s how its’ done:

1. First you need to create your static page (I’m going to assume you already know how to do that).

2. Go to the Menu –>> Mainmenu section in your backend.

3. Unpublish your home ‘home’ menu - click on the icon next to the menu titled ‘Home’. It should now have a red X instead of the regular icon indicating it was published:

4. Create a new menu item:

 4.1. Click ‘new’ in the icons to the upper right of the menu manager. You’ll come to a screen like the one below:

 4.2. Choose link –>> static content as the link type

4.3. Click ‘Next’ (in the upper right of the current screen)
4.3. Now, you’ll be on the ‘add menu item - Link - Static Content’ options page:

4.4. Name colums - type ‘Home’ (w/o quotes)
 4.5. choose the static content page you want for your home page that has already been created
 4.6. Leave as is what is in the ‘On Click, Open’ list
 4.7. Parent Item list - choose ‘Top’
 4.8. Access Level - Choose Public
 4.9. Published - set as yes
 4.10. Leave the parameters on the right alone
 4.11. Click Save (upper right corner of current screen) (The following are all illustrated above)

5. Go to the menu section. we’re now going to change the order of the menu

6. Set your new home page link to 0 so it will be at the top of the other menus (you might need to use the arrows and just move it up until it is set to 0). The main point is that it is at the top of the menu order. In mine, I couldn’t set  it to 0, it kept defaulting to 1, but it was still at the top, and it worked. It should look something like this:

7. Save, and check your site!

When you’re creating your static page to be used as the index page, you might want to pay attention to the parameters. To make sure it didn’t look messy, I set the options like the title, back, and most of the others, to ‘hide’. Then you’re just left with the content you put in. But you can easily code in your own headings and titles with html.