Let's add some stuff to the home page through the Article Manager.
1. Navigate to Content | Article Manager.
2. In the Front Page column, click on the red cross of four articles: Deplorable Still Lifes, Ugly Art Lecture, The Art of Bob Ross, and This Years Meeting. The red cross turns into a green check mark. The results are shown in the following screenshot. Four articles are set to show on the Front Page:
3. Click on Preview. You've got a home page filled with content! Four articles are displayed on the home page as intro texts with Read more links:
By clicking on the icon in the Front Page column in the Article Manager you have added four articles to the home page. On the frontend, these four articles are now shown in the default Joomla! Front Page layout; the first intro text is displayed in the full mainbody width, the intro texts below that are presented in two columns. We'll leave this for now—but rest assured, you'll...