Because we are unsatisfied with the way our welcome page is displayed, we will create a custom template. We can instruct eZ publish to use a desired template each time a specific node is accessed.

Our welcome page contains information that should not present in the welcome text. The date, the creator of the article, "Tip a friend", and "Download PDF version of this page" should be hidden. Therefore we override the default template, display the introduction text, body text, and the image.

The following guide should take you through the necessary steps.

1. Bring up the administration interface.
2. Click on the "Design" tab.
3. Click on "Templates" (in the menu on the left hand side).
   A list of template files will appear.
4. Locate a file called "/node/view/full.tpl" and click on it.
5. On the next page, simply click "New override".
6. Type in "full_view_welcome" into the template name field.
7. Make sure the dropdown box "Section" is set to "All sections" and "Class" is set to "All classes".
8. Type in the identification number of the welcome-page node.
9. Make sure that "Empty" is chosen in the "Base template on" section.
10. Press "OK" button.

eZ publish will then generate a custom template that will be used instead of the standard template every time the specified node is accessed. The newly generated template file will be put in the "design/tscm/override/templates/" directory. Edit the newly generated file. You can either use the administration interface, by clicking on the edit icon for the desired template file (if the 'could not open file' warning popups up, you can safely ignore it), or use your favourite text editor. Put the following lines into the file:

<div class="pagetitle">

   {attribute_view_gui attribute=$node.object.data_map.title}

</div>

<div class="imageright">

   {attribute_view_gui attribute=$node.object.data_map.image}

</div>

{attribute_view_gui attribute=$node.object.data_map.intro}

{attribute_view_gui attribute=$node.object.data_map.body}

This template code will simply extract the contents of the welcome object and display it in a nice way.

Raise the priority of this template to 1, and clear the override caches. The welcome page hides: the date, the creator of the article, "Tip a friend", and "Download PDF version of this page".