I would like to be able to have 3 sections in the body of my homepage each spaced equally and horizontally. The layout is not a problem, what I need assistance with is the ability to update the content in each of the 3 sections independently. For example I have the 1st section far left with a header and small info with a read more. Then a center section with alternate header and info also with a read more. Then the far right section be a news section with header and feeds to news page. How do I go about setting this up in the CMS? Do I just need to create 3 submenus and change the content to not be nav but just copy? Seem as a CMS this shoud be quite easily accomplished. Be gentle Im familiar with CMS yet this is my first SS addition.

Thanks for any and all support...

1st section far left with a header and small info with a read more

Have a read of the 2nd tutorial. It covers how to add fields to the CMS. I wouldn't create pages just for content but just add a TextField, TextareaField etc to the HomePage using getCMSFields(). Like I said, tutorial 2 is a good start for this.

Sooo I am getting stuck here:
Cant seem to get the latest news on the homepage. Here is what I have:

HomePage.php within mysite/code
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<?php

class HomePage extends Page {
function LatestNews($num=3) {
$news = DataObject::get_one("ArticleHolder");
return ($news) ? DataObject::get("ArticlePage", "ParentID = $news->ID", "Date DESC", "", $num) : false;
}
}
?>

Homepage.ss within templates/layout
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$Content
<div id="headStrong" class="Newstypography">
<h2>LATEST NEWS</h2>
<h3>WHATS HAPPENING AT AKL</h3>
</div>
<div id="ContentNews" class="typography">
<ul id="NewsList">
<% control Children %>
<li class="newsDateTitle">$Title</li>
<li class="newsDateTitle">$Date.Nice</li>
<li class="newsSummary">$Content.FirstParagraph Read more >></li>
<% end_control %>
</ul>
</div>

When this is all uploaded nothing shows on the homepage. What am I not doing or doing wrong?

i also think the LatestNews method should be in the controller to make it work.