Feature Pack 5Feature Pack 6

Home page (B2C)

The Home page offers a set of seven e-Marketing Spots for you to showcase 'the most compelling ads, products, and promotions in your store.

Feature Pack 7 or laterIf you are using the Feature Pack 7 or later version of the Aurora starter store, the home page uses a responsive web design pattern and the Commerce Composer framework:

Elements of the Home Page

Home page screen capture

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E-Marketing Spots

You can display default content, or Web activities, or both, in any of the following e-Marketing Spots on this page:
E-Marketing Spot name and details Supported default content types Supported Web activities
1 CatalogBanner_Content

Recommended usage: Display a page-wide banner ad below the header on catalog browsing pages.

  • Content - Yes
  • Categories - No
  • Catalog entries - No
Run Web activities that use the following actions:
2 HomeRow1_Content

Recommended usage: Display the main ad on the home page.

  • Content - Yes
  • Categories - No
  • Catalog entries - No
Run Web activities that use the following actions:
3 HomeRow2_CatEntries

Recommended usage: Display catalog entry recommendations on the home page.

  • Content - No
  • Categories - No
  • Catalog entries - Yes

Run Web activities that use the following actions:

4 HomeLeft_Content

Recommended usage: Display ads on the left side of the home page.

  • Content - Yes
  • Categories - No
  • Catalog entries - No
Run Web activities that use the following actions:
5 HomeRightRow1_Content

Recommended usage: Display ads on the right side of the home page.

  • Content - Yes
  • Categories - No
  • Catalog entries - No
Run Web activities that use the following actions:
6 HomeRightRow2_Content

Recommended usage: Display additional ads on the right side of the home page.

  • Content - Yes
  • Categories - No
  • Catalog entries - No
Run Web activities that use the following actions:
7 Home_IntellOffer

Not visible by default, this e-Marketing Spot is enabled by integrating your store with IBM Product Recommendations, formerly known as Coremetrics Intelligent Offer.

Recommended usage: Display catalog entry recommendations on the home page from IBM Product Recommendations.

  • Content - No
  • Categories - No
  • Catalog entries - Yes
Run Web activities that use the following actions: