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title: Modifying the home page structure
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
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> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

Now you will learn how to define the content of a page template's web part zones. Specifically, we will add a web part displaying the current time to the template used by the Home page.

1. Make sure you are in the **Edit** mode of the **Pages** application.
2. Select **Home** in the content tree.
3. Open the **Design** tab.

You can insert web parts using the toolbar displayed on the right side of the tab. For example, type the word "time" into the search text box at the top of the toolbar. This limits the listed web parts to those that have the word "time" in their name.

![Searching for web parts in the web part toolbar](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k81tutorial/modifying-the-home-page-structure/WebPartToolbar.png "Searching for web parts in the web part toolbar")

Hover over the **Date & time** web part, hold down the mouse button and drag it from the toolbar to the bottom of the **Actions zone**, below the **Mobile redirection** web part. After you drop the web part into the zone, double-click the web part to open the **Web part properties** dialog.

Scroll down to the **Web part container** property and select _**Corporate Site - List box** **content**_ as the value.

![Configuring web parts - setting a web part container](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k81tutorial/modifying-the-home-page-structure/Configuring_WebParts.png "Configuring web parts - setting a web part container")

Click **Save & Close** to save the changes.

Switch to **Preview** mode to see how the new web part affects the appearance of the Home page.

![The Date & Time web part placed on the home page](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k81tutorial/modifying-the-home-page-structure/WebPart_Result.png "The Date & Time web part placed on the home page")

Return to **Edit** mode and view the **Home** page on the **Design** tab again. The system provides an alternative way of adding web parts if you do not wish to use the toolbar.

Right-click the header of the zone where you want to insert the web part and select **Add new web part** in the menu.

The **Select web part** dialog opens, where you can look through the catalog of all available web parts. For example, the previously used **Date & time** web part is in the **General** category.

![Selecting a web part in the catalog](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k81tutorial/modifying-the-home-page-structure/WebPart_Catalog.png "Selecting a web part in the catalog")

Close the dialog, since there is no reason to add the web part again.

Both ways of adding web parts achieve the same result. When instructed to add a web part to a page template in the remaining parts of this tutorial, you can choose whichever method you prefer — either the toolbar or the zone action buttons.

> **Tip:** **Developing custom web parts**
>
> You are not limited to using the default set of Kentico web parts. You can find web parts created by other developers at the [Kentico Marketplace](https://devnet.kentico.com/Marketplace/Web-parts.aspx) or develop your own web parts.

> **Tip:** **Testing changes without switching the view mode**
>
> You can quickly test the changes you make to the structure of the website by opening or refreshing the given page in a different browser. Note that the view mode changes if you use two tabs of the same browser.
>
> Multiple tabs can however be useful for switching between different application in the administration interface.