Question:
Let us say there are three articles on the front page - At the default layout, Article 1 is at the top and spans the width of the content pane. Articles 2 and 3 both appear underneath and split the width between them, in newspaper column format. This is the 'out of the box' layout, as can be seen here.
I am trying to change this so that Article 1 is at the top, Article 2 is beneath it spanning the width of the area, and Article 3 is at the bottom. An example of this is this screenshot (although in the demo displays differently).
My coding skills are would fall under the 'Joomla for Dummies' section, I'm afraid. I think I need to make a change in index.php but can't quite seem to figure it out. Can anyone help me? I would really appreciate any advice that could be tossed my way.
Answer:
You can set this via the menu manager. Your 'home' link is a 'frontpage' menu item and it is in the setting for this that you adjust how the front page is displayed.
Go to backend>Menus>Mainmenu>Home and on the right you will see...
Leading:Set them to...Leading: 3
Intro:
Columns:
Intro: 0
Columns: 1


