I wonder if I a missing something from page-front.tpl.php? I read a lot here about a center column in the front page context, but I don't see any way to get blocks or anything else in there. Is this the content region in edit/context?
In short, I want to clone the front page to add a block views to the center, but don't know how best to do it. This raises the general question for me whether context or panels would be better for the front page anyway, but that is another discussion.
This is all I see in page-front.tpl.php about regions:
<?php
print $left;
?>
<?php
print $over_content;
?>
<?php
print $right;
?><?php
print $page_footer;
?>