You're correct, i havent built a store for a number of years, my previous experience was with OScommerce, so its all quite new to me

I did manage to figure it out just before reading you post.
I had 2 default home pages, one was set as an article and that was the default, so hence unpublishing the article gave me that error. I switched this to the 'Other' home page and all is well. Thank you for your response
