title: Static block on home page in Magento
body: <p>I am trying to add a static block to the home page of a Magento site using the layout XML file.</p>
  
  <p>I can see how to add and remove block inside a reference, but I am struggling to see how to add it for a specific page, i.e. the home page.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;block type="cms/block" name="home-page-block"&gt;
      &lt;action method="setBlockId"&gt;&lt;block_id&gt;home-page-block&lt;/block_id&gt;&lt;/action&gt;
  &lt;/block&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How would I wrap this code in the <code>page.xml</code> file for it to be only used on the homepage?<br>
  Or is there a better way? Should the home page be a new template?</p>