customising main page while not effecting other pages

[arpeggio]

Yesterday I removed the sideboxes from just the main page but could leave them on all other pages. This was a major breakthru for me!!
It is easily done by assigning a flag for either: left, right, header, footer.

but

Now I want to remove only a small portion of the header itself like: the Navigation Breadcrumb, and Categories Bar.

I used "<!-- blah blah --> to make the Bar not appear but now i cannot see it on any pages!!
Is there another level to which i can use the override system for just the header of the Main Page but leave all other headers unchanged??

I also want to remove the centerBoxContent and heading on the main page but want it on all other pages. can this also be done?

Any help most appreciated.

[kuroi]

If you are using a recent version of Zen Cart you can wrap the code you don't want to be executed on the home page with the following

if (!$this_is_home_page ) {

<code to be not executed>

}

[clydejones]

Now I want to remove only a small portion of the header itself like: the Navigation Breadcrumb

If you're using version 1.3.7 you can control the breadcrumb in admin -> configuration -> layout settings: you can turn them off completely turn them on for all pages or turn them off on just the main page.

[Outlawlb]

I know how n00b this sounds but which files would be the files to work on if I had to do any hand coding for the main page?

[kuroi]

That would depend. The structure of the main page is controlled by common/tpl_main_page.php, but it pulls in content from the entire template system. Could you provide more information about what you'd like to do.

[Outlawlb]

Basically I would have several images and one log in box.

What I am doing will make this main page look like a brochure cover.