I have a static page called 'welcome' which just contains text and should display on the home page but doesn't - there's nothing there. However, if I edit the static page and select the 'Show a link to the page in Help menu?:' option, a link to the page appears at the bottom of the site and when I visit that page, the content is displayed.
Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
Static pages are accessible by their own URLs.
To change your welcome page follow the instructions (Shortly, it is the template like skin/common_files/customer/main/welcome.tpl / skin/your_skin/customer/main/welcome.tpl).