Let's add a couple of articles to the home page through the Article Manager.
Navigate to Content | Article Manager.
In the Status column, click on the white star next to four articles: Hideous Still Lifes, Ugly Art Lecture, The Art of Bob Ross, and This Years Meeting. The white star turns orange. The results are shown in the following screenshot. Four articles are set to show on the home page:
Click on View Site. 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 Featured 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 home page layout; the first intro text is displayed in the full mainbody width, the other intro texts below are presented in three columns. We'll leave this for now—but rest assured, you'll learn how...