Apply Joomla Template to index.php

Question

I'm new to Joomla, I'm using 3.3.6. My customer wants a landing page which looks absolutely nothing like the rest of the site.

I asked "how to create a custom page in Joomla". a while back. The answer was great, and now I have completed a template which looks awesome. My only problem is, I need to assign this template to index.php not just to some sub page on a menu. Can I do this?

Answer 1

You could create another menu that won't be visible in the frontend, assign the template there and make it default (in order to be shown as frontpage).