When your site grows, it's important to make sure the home page properly reflects all of the content categories to prevent your valuable new content from staying unnoticed. Using the Front Page Manager (see Chapter 4) you can set a selection of articles to show in central area of the home page. But there are more ways to attract attention to specific articles. In this case, we'll use the Newsflash module to show a random article intro text from a selected category each time the page is loaded. Every time the visitor returns another item will be displayed in the Newsflash module position.
1. Navigate to Extensions | Module Manager. It may be hard to locate the Newsflash module in this multi-page listing, but there's a quick way to find it. In the Type drop-down box, select mod_newsflash. Now just this module is shown:
2. Click on the Module Name (Newsflash) to edit the module properties. In the Title box, replace the default title Newsflash...