Everyone's seen it before, the default layout for vBA - two sidebars and a middle column.

To be different you need to break out and do something different, like on the homepage of my site The Blogging Café using custom module positions.

First off, you need to decide the layout you want, and give each spot a name, like so:



Now you need to go into your admin CP > vBa CMPS > Default Settings> Main Options and add in your custom module positions, remember the varnames!


The next step, is to edit your adv_portal template to include these modules. The standard code for the modules is is $home[varnameblocks],remember to look at the rest of the template for guidance to add the appropriate column padding. Really, you should only need to edit in between $navbar and $footer. Here's what mine looks like:
So, I hope this helps you on the way to a more creative vBAdvanced Page!