"home button"

Hello everyone. First time WP user…well not really but its been a SUPER long time…

anyways, so im implementing the wp menu to my custom site theme but,
i notice that there isnt a “home button” on the menu list.

ive looked EVERYWHERE i can think of and nothing. i tried to add it by hand with html and php but..

even when i did something like this (see below pseudo code)

<?php echo ‘home‘ . wp_nav_menu(); ?>

it worked but for some odd reason, it always put it in a new line. so the “home” button would appear in a new line ONTOP of the wp menu. so no good.

so messing around, i went to “add new page” in WP page area and in the title area, i entered this

home

and when i tested. it works. i see a home button. aligned and everything.

the question i have is. is this okay. it feels more like a hack since a text title for the page is supposed to go there but…just want to make sure that by doing this, is going to break it in any way…i dont want any, ugly errors in the menu area.

since it IS working..is this okay to do, is it a decent workaround or, should i not do this?

any thoughts, ideas etc, are greatly appreciated.

thanks