Many of you have expressed interest in "hacking" the default home page to add you own photographs, or additional content.

The default home page is built-in, and cannot be edited per se.  However, there is nothing preventing you from creating your own home page with exactly the same underlying code as is used on the default home page. All you need is the code. Well, here it is:

http://wow.uscgaux.info/documents/story.zip

Here is how you use it:

1. Go to the configuration dashboard, and start with a default home page (no announcements);
2. Click on the link above, and download the story.zip file to your desktop;
3. Double-click open the zip file, and either drag the story.txt file to your desktop, and open it, or simply click it open right in the zip window, if your version of zip allows that.
4. Copy all the code in story.txt. For safety,  use CTRL-A (PC) or CMD-A (Mac), and do an Edit > Copy from the menu, or a CTRL-C (PC) or CMD-C (Mac);
5. In WOW, on the home page dashboard, create a new announcement;  In the editor window, click on "HTML" at the bottom;
6. Click your mouse in the editor window, and use CTRL-V (PC) or CMD-V (Mac) to paste the text you copied from story.txt.
7. SAVE the announcement, and Return to Unit Page.

If you did it right, the home page will look identical to the default home page.  However, now you may go back and either edit that announcement, or add additional announcements on the home page to customize it as you see fit.