add block to front page as a new section
Do you have a section available to add the block to or do you need to add a section to put the block in? To add a new section you'll need to edit the .info file for your theme and add the new section definition there. Also you'll need to modify the active page template for your homepage adding a new section to the template file. Then you can define where the block will appear and in the block config you can define that it only appear on the &lt;front&gt; page if that's the desired result.