frontpage

Like others I have trouble figuring out how to get things posted on the frontpage. For instance, the "middle" column is extremely hard to fill with material based on what instruction I can find and have seen.
Well, there is another side problem that has to do with that also. At least on my installation.
In using ckEditor to post what page(s) a block should appear on, I get this problem. I click the editor to "source" and type in, for example, , then I save. Then I look for the block and nothing on the front page or any other.

I cannot found anywhere what is the workflow to promote (or to propose for promoting) a post to the g.d.o. frontpage.

Can anybody help with this?

Thanks!

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