Thanks Eric
When I copy the front-page.php (page-home.php) file and turn it into a template and assign that template to a page (page-x) and then populate a widget area, I do get the front page and page-x turning into a landing page; however, the css on page-x is screwed up. This is odd as it should be calling the same css as the front landing page – so something is amiss.
Furthermore, when I create separate widget areas on a page-x template (and register them in the functions.php file of course) and then populate them, page-x does not show ANY content and I do not know why.
I had emailed a job/quote request to Wes to create a separate php file that would strip out the if/then structure (if a widget area is occupied then…) and have it as an available template to assign to a page that would turn it into a landing page that would look the same as the Aspire theme landing page. I could then clone that file and create (and register) new widget areas and apply the cloned file to another page and have yet another landing page (rinse and repeat) – but I never heard back from him.
I can see that this is a simple task but the code is all Greek to me.