Stories

In the introductory documentation you looked at how to create and edit pages of content for your website. In an almost identical way to creating a new page, you can create a news story for your site: on the 'create content' pane of the control panel, click 'story'.

The subtle difference between a story and a page is really only how you expect it to be accessed and interpreted by a visitor of your site: when you create a story – as opposed to a page – the story will by default be promoted to the special news page of your site, with the most recent news article appearing at the top of that page; whereas a page will usually be linked to from a menu on your site and will not be related to a specific date or time (e.g. contact information, services that are offered, members of staff or volunteers, etc.).

To see how news stories can be presented on your site, create two or more different stories and then click on the 'News' item in the main menu.

Currently your site has a 'home' page set as the default website front page (the first page that a visitor will see) and the news page is accessed using the 'News' menu item, but if you decide you would like the site to be a very news-oriented site, then you may want to set the front page of your site to be the main news page (a page called 'node'). The process of changing the main page of your site is described in the advanced website management document.