Login as an administrator. Go to the home page. If you see the Edit bar, click on Edit Page. Click on Design. You'll see a list of page types. Select the Home Page Type.

If you don't see it:

-You may need to click the right arrow which will scroll the page type options.

-You may not have installed and activated a home.php page type in your themes folder.

-You may not have permissions to add that page type. Set your permissions for the entire site by going to the Dashboard and choosing Sitemap. Click on the Home folder and select Permissions. Give the Group you want to be able to add that Page Type all the permissions they need. If you've activated Advanced Permissions in your config file then you may also want to choose Manual and select the drop down box "Currently Viewing" and drop down to Sub-page permissions. There you'll find a list of Groups that can add certain types of pages. Give yourself the rights if necessary.

good luck,

mario

I spent a lot of time banging my head against the wall over not seeing my changes to template files appear on the front end.

It turned out for me that going to C5 Dashboard > System & Settings and clearing the cache did the trick.