Remember that the front page description always appears in the left or right column of the front page. It does not appear in the center column. If you want your site description (for example, Welcome to the....) at the top and center, you'll need to include a topic section, which always appears in the center of your front page, as seen in the following screenshot:
You can make your site description the first topic. In this example, we turned the Front Page Description off. We are using the first topic to introduce the site instead. That puts the site description top and center, where it's most noticeable. ...
