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[spyderwoman]

I want to create a static page to use as the entry point for our website but when I create a static page through the admin tool, if the page is not embeded I cant have it parse smarty code. Is there a way around this?

[balinor]

Are you SURE you want to use a splash page? Those are SEO killers....

[spyderwoman]

Really? Darn! I guess spash page is not what I mean per se. I guess what I mean is a customized home page. is that the same thing?

[spyderwoman]

just to give you an idea of what I want to do...
https://www.greenpeanursery.com/cart/splash.html
then I want to customize the store to have that header and menu and then only have the subcategories show up on the side once in the store. does that make sense?

[balinor]

You can do that with simple {if} statements. To hide something on the home page or show something on the home page only, use this code:

{if $main eq "catalog" and $current_category.category eq ""}
Stuff you want to show on the home page only
{else}
Stuff you want to show on every page BUT the home page
{/if}

[spyderwoman]

i want to create a new header and footer to be used throughout, but then I want the center portion to be unique for the home page with no side boxes.

[spyderwoman]

does this mean there are no ways to display smarty tags in random pages?

[balinor]

Then that code will work great - customer/main/welcome.tpl is the code for the home page center section, customer/home.tpl contains the sidebars.

[balinor]

You can't display smarty without the smarty engine - non-embedded static pages are just plain html, no php at all.