There are two kinds of articles - Categorized, and Uncategorized.

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Information pages and Service pages, and other things of that nature will need to be put into sections and categories. But some articles will not.

Menu items such as "About Us", "Contact", and other informational type articles can stand alone, and be left as "uncategorized".

For a stand alone article, go to the "Menus" tab in the main menu on the upper left hand corner. Click on "Main Menu". When the page downloads, you will have a page just like the ones for the "Article Manager". Click on the "New" icon - the green circle with the white plus sign.

You will now see a "tree" of options. The first option for articles is "Archive", which has the choice of "Archived Article List". This is for articles that you may want to have your visitors have access to, but you have removed from your site.

The next choice is "Article". The options here are "Article Layout" and "Article Submission Layout". "Article Layout" is what you would use to link an article to the Main Menu. Article Submission Layout leads the user to an article submission form.

The remaining choices are for linking categories and sections, and putting articles on the main/home page.
Choose "Article layout". On the right hand side, just under the icons at the top, there will be a gray box with "Parameters" written on it. If you click the "Browse" button, you will see another view of the "Articles" list. Click on the title of the article. Then type the name of the article in the "Title" box on the left side. In the "Alias" box, retype the title, but in small letters, with dashes in between the words, not spaces.

There is a drop down menu for "Display in". You want it to display in this menu, so leave this option alone.
The "Parent Item" box should be left with "Home" already high lighted, unless you want it to show up nested in the menu under another item (which will only show up after someone clicks the parent item).
"Published" should default to "Yes". If it is not click on "Yes".

There is a "note" here that says you can change the order of menu items after the changes have been saved. After you have clicked Save, you will go back to the list of the Menu Items. You can use the "up" and "down" arrows to change the order of your menu items.

There is a scroll menu for "Access Level". If you want everyone who sees your website to see that page, then choose "Public".  If you want to only allow people with certain access levels to look at that article, then choose "Registered". Anyone who wants to look at that page will have to use a password. If you only want "Administrators", or those who you allow to make changes to your site, choose "Special".

Lastly, you have a scroll menu that says "On click open in".   "Parent window with browser navigation" just means that it opens on the same page. In other words, the new page will open in place of the page where you clicked. You can also choose to have it open in a new window.

After you have made your choices, click the "Save" button at the top of the page.