A story is really a simple piece of content that you want to show up on the front page of the NER website. An example of a story would be to announce an upcoming conference where you want to give details about the conference and add attachments such as such as flyers or registration forms.

To add a story follow the steps below:

1. under the Resources menu item (located in the top menu bar) click Add to the Website --> Story
2. Add a title and pick a topic to categorize the story. The meat of the story goes under the body section. Here you can add text and pictures.
3. When your satisfied with what you have (you can always edit the story again to change details) click on the save button at the bottom of the page. This saves your story and also "publishes" it to the website.

Even though your story is published, it doesn't show up on the front page of the website. To "promote" it to the front page of the website, you'll notice under each story, there are 3 links that will something like this:

These links "Toggle" the story states. The links above say that this story is published but is not sticky or promoted to the front page of the website. Making a story "Sticky" means that, when promoted to the front page, it will stay at the top of the list of published and promoted stories even though it may be older. Generally, as newer stories get promoted to the front page of the website, they appear at the top, while older stories appear after in descending order.

You can toggle these states on and off as you want. If you have an older story on the front page that you still want your readers to see but it's not important enough to be on the front page, toggle the promoted/not promoted link.