Add Homepage link to Magento menu bar

Question

I am trying to add a homepage link to the main menu of Magento. I have modified top.phtml in my template/catalog/navigation and added the line

<li>
    <a href="<?php echo $this->getUrl('') ?>"><?php echo $this->__('Home'); ?></a>
</li>

between the <ul>'s but it doesn't work?

Answer 1

Try

<li>
      <a href="<?php echo Mage::helper('core/url')->getHomeUrl(); ?>"><?php echo $this->__('Home'); ?></a>
</li>

Then flush cache if any

Answer 2

Try using this. It will return the base url of your site.

<?php echo Mage::getBaseUrl(); ?>