Question : How do I use a static page for Joomla's Home Page?

Hi, I've been using Joomla for a while, but never had to do this before.  I need to make the home page out of one intergrated image.  So I'd like to use a static home page and then link it into the Joomla internal pages.  Problem is that I can't figure out how to setup the site to view the static home page first instead of the Joomla index.php I'd like default.php and it to be static, meanin not using the Joomla template and then link from that to the internal pages.

Answer : How do I use a static page for Joomla's Home Page?

Assuming your date is in C11 enter in another cell:

=DATEVALUE(TRIM(LEFT(RIGHT(C11,LEN(C11)-FIND(",",C11)-1),FIND(":",RIGHT(C11,LEN(C11)-FIND(",",C11)-1))-3)))

This will convert it into a real date, which you can then format as you desire.

Steve