Home Page Layout

I did read another thread on this but it did not give too much info on how to go about doing this.

I have tried loading default into visual studio 2005 and dreamweaver to go into grid view and check the componant layout, without joy.

Basically I am trying to put a strip of content below the menu and above the configurable content and the side bar.  Any clues would be appreciated. 

I would really love to create an ellaborate design for the front with componants embedded into cut up graphics (have done this for individual things like a graphic holding up the list of people online). 

Edit default.aspx in notepad!

Thanks, have done so .. abit of a pain from a design point of view. Editing the default does not allow me to insert the strip to go below the menu without padding and to run the width of the page.

The only way I found to do this was to edit skin-titlebar, place it here and I have to figure a check for to see its the main page, probably going about it all wrong.

If anyone can help it would be appreciated.

You can edit the default page in VS2005, you just have to use the source view not the design view, as CS 2.0 is NOT ASP.net 2.0 complied

You've answered the question I've been seeking. I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong and why I could not edit cs aspx pages with Visual Studio 2005 in design mode. Any Idea when CS will be compiled for ASP.NET 2.0? My host now also offers the .Net 3.0 framework. Thanks for any info on when Community Server will be compatable with Visual Studio 2005 in design mode?