For the homepage of HowToSew.com I wanted to have a custom page title.  The obvious answer to this was the nifty Page Title module which I've used with great success in the past.

However, in this case it just seemed like overkill as I only wanted the homepage title customized.

It isn't very tough to do which is handy.  Using Sivaji's post on "How to set [a] custom page title in Drupal 7" as a starting place, it only took a moment.  Here is the resulting code snippet:

Session: Theme Preprocess Functions: An Introduction
Speaker: Carl Wiedemann
Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/c4rl/theme-preprocess-functions-an-introduction-drupalcon-denver-2012