Spotlight Portlet

The spotlight is created as a static text portlet assigned to the homepage object.

1) Click on your home link and then Manage Portlets

 

Highlighting the manage portlets link

2) Add a static text portlet to the right column

3) Name the portlet "spotlight" and type in what you want the spotlight to say - this can be just text or can be formatted html and include images

4) Save the portlet