Magento : Can not get Static Block to display on CMS home page.

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This magento discussion was started by aguay 0n 31 December 2008

I’ve read through all the forum posts on this, and I still can’t get it to work.

I have a one column home page, and I want to display an image under the header and above the footer.

I’ve tried a few different codings in the static block to call the image, and I’ve the put references to the block in different places… the “custom design” tab, the “page content” box, in phtml files, in xml files…

Can someone help me through this?

I have a static block “home_splash” that just needs to contain one image, in the images folder under skin. How exactly do I call the image in the static block, and where exactly do I put the reference to the block? One place, two places?

Thanks so much! Most things I’ve been able to figure out as I’ve gone along here, but I’ve seen so many different answers for this sort of problem that I think I’ve gotten myself confused.

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