How to add news items on your home page 

If you like, you can display information about coming events in the "What's New" section of your site. To do this, you need to add some News Items.

This is a sample of how news items will appear on your site:

The location and presentation of the news items on your site may vary depending on the template you've selected.

To add news items, go to Website > General > News Items. This page displays a list of any news items already created. If you haven't created any items yet, the list will be empty. The sample below shows a list with two news items already defined.

Use the up and down arrows to the left of the Date column to reorder news items. To edit or delete a news item, hover over it and click the blue down arrow on the far right. This action displays a drop-down list with both the "Edit" and "Delete" commands. You can also edit a news item by clicking its name. This action takes you to Edit News Item.

Click the "Add" button to create a news item. You will be presented with Add News Item (shown below).

Set the date (optional), title and description of your news item. If a news item should not appear on your site before a certain date, you can enter a "Start Showing On" date. If a news item should be removed from your site after a certain date, you can specify a "Stop Showing On" date.  After filling in the fields, click Save.

How to set the minimum number of news items

By default, Main Street Sites makes a "best guess" as to how many news items ought to appear in your site's "What's New" section.  Because each template is a little different and news items can contain any combination of font sizes and images, this estimate is not always accurate. 

The "Minimum number of news items to show..." setting on the New Items > Settings tab can be used in cases where you wish to change the default behavior and force a certain number of news items to be displayed.