Home Page questions

I am not a web designer at all, but I do all the maintenance for my webstore.
My question is about the homepage. My store is related to fashion, and so I need a certain kind of front page for my site. I can't just have a bunch of featured products on the front page as if it were a car parts store.

What I normally do is just create a large jpeg in photoshop and have it be my main image, but what I WANT to do is be able to have this image for the front page be clickable and take the user to different brand pages on the site.

So far, I have been able to teach myself how to create a document in photoshop that will have images that can be clicked on to go to the desired URL's, however, when I save the page in photoshop I have to save it with images and html together, and this makes it a .html document.

So when I got to the html editor for the home page manager in product cart, it won't let me upload a .html file. Therefore, I can't ever have a front page image that is clickable? This can't be...
does anyone know how to create a front page where images are clickable? If this software can't allow for this then I may have to move on. Thanks!

Thanks Greg. Will I be able to create an image with this that will be uploadable to my site from within the Product Cart control panel?
BY the way, I need to find a new product cart developer that I can hire to help me. Any takers?

Just noticed the client has updated colormall.com with a single image, whereas we have traditionally featured 3-4 products in the splash image with an image map. I figure the above gives you an adequate description however.

*edit*

Greg's answer is spot on.

However, I found that I wanted to edit the home.asp page so that my featured products message does not show above the home page description:


               <%
               ' If there are featured products, show that message, otherwise hide it
               if pcIntHPFeaturedCount > 0 then
               %>
                    <h1><%response.write dictLanguage.Item(Session("language")&"_mainIndex_11")%></h1>
               <%
               end if
               
               ' Show Home Page description, if any
               if pcStrHPDesc <> "" then %>
                    <div class="pcPageDesc"><%=pcStrHPDesc%></div>
               <%      
               end if
               %>



Replace with:


               <%     
               ' Show Home Page description, if any
               if pcStrHPDesc <> "" then %>
                    <div class="pcPageDesc"><%=pcStrHPDesc%></div>
               <%      
               end if
               ' If there are featured products, show that message, otherwise hide it
               if pcIntHPFeaturedCount > 0 then
               %>
                    <h1><%response.write dictLanguage.Item(Session("language")&"_mainIndex_11")%></h1>
               <%
               end if
               %>

Edited by Brett - 08-June-2010 at 4:56pm