Displaying News

Hi all,
I have a multilingual modx based website, and I wanted to include a news text that would be displayed on the top of my front page. I found an interesting code : http://www.editeurjavascript.com/edit/154.php (sorry for the french).
My only problem is managing a manager interface that would allow to modifiy easily the news message without entering in the HTML.
I am pretty bad in coding, and I do not know really how to create a plugin and a model variable that would for exemple add a form in every page I create with the manager where I can modify the text that will appear online.

Is there someone that could help me?
Thanks a lot

There are two ways you can deal with this.

If the news item is only going to be displayed on the front page, use a chunk.

Then you can edit the chunk as needed. If you prefer, you can create a document with no template to hold your news item, and use a TV with @DOCUMENT binding to display the news item.

You could even just use the home page’s "Summary" (introtext) field to hold the news item.


On the other hand, if the news item is to be a brief summary of a regular news page (usually this would be the latest news page), which will also be displayed as part of a list of news summaries with links on a main "News" page, just use a Ditto call on the home page.