sure, first you gotta consider though that rectangle_top.tpl and rectangle_bottom.tpl ultimately decide alot of things about the "outside" table of your entire catalog...so that said, usually what I do in order to have a completely custom homepage vs. the rest of the catalog site is I get rid of everything in rectangle_top.tpl and put in my own "header" code in that file - also eliminating everything in head.tpl or head_customer.tpl except for keeping track of necessary tags like the categories include, ,etc. that we may want to include in the design somewhere else.
Then, in those files, I use the tag I last mentioned {if $main eq "catalog" and $current_category.category eq ""} to provide a totally different "header" for if it's the homepage, and then in the rectangle_bottom.tpl I use that tag again to provide my "footer" for the homepage and non-homepage pages.
{if $main eq "catalog" and $current_category.category eq ""}
Homepage html code - beginning from just below the body tag in your template, down to where you want your content to show up.
{else}
regular site html - however you want that setup.
{/if}
Sometimes, it's necessary to alter the <body> tag as well per homepage or deeper page, and that can be done in the same manner in home.tpl, or by calling in a different .css depending on homepage or not.
Make sense?
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