Here is a HELLO WORLD you can modify

replace spotlight.php which is in view/default/spotlight/spotlight.php with the following code (but please make a backup first) -- it works for me

here is the code

<!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } -->

<?php

    /**
     * Elgg default spotlight
     * The spotlight area that displays across the site
     *
     * @package Elgg
     * @subpackage Core
     * @license http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html GNU Public License version 2
     * @author Curverider Ltd
     * @copyright Curverider Ltd 2008
     * @link http://elgg.org/
     *
     */
?>

<table id="spotlight_table" width="100%"cellspacing="0">
    <tr>
        <td align="left" valign="top">
        <!-- spotlight LHS content -->
                    <table id="spotlight_table_left_area" width="90%" cellspacing="0">
                        <tr> <td colspan="3" align="left" valign="top">
      
             
                            <h2> Welcome </h2><br>                           
             
              HELLO WORLD  This is where you can place whatever wordings you wish to describe your site.
                                     
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
                            </td>
                        </tr>

                    </table>
                <!-- /spotlight LHS content -->

        </td>       
    </tr>
  </table>

<!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } -->

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