[TYPO3-ttnews] Best practice for headline news?

[Frank]

Anyone?

"Frank" <frank.sonck at freebel.net> schreef in bericht 
news:mailman.1.1149808112.29818.typo3-project-tt-news at lists.netfielders.de...
> Hi,
>
> I want to make a news homepage with 5 selected news items and 1 most 
> important (headline) item on top and with its own style. I've read in this 
> group that I can put two tt_news plugins on the page. For the headline 
> item: a LATEST selection, limited to 1 item. For the 5 selected items a 
> LIST or LATEST, limited to 5 items. Each plugin its own css and template 
> and so on.
>
> But how to select the news items? Let's say I have already 500 items. 
> Today I enter 10 new items. There is 1 that I want to make headliner. I 
> could give it a special category 'headliner'. And do this each day. With a 
> LATEST selection the newest headliner would come out. But if I want to 
> make the previous headliner item today's number one, for whatever reason? 
> Then I have a problem. In fact there should always only be one headliner 
> item, ie the one that I choose.
> Does anyone have an idea how I could realise this?
>
> And the same thing for the 5 selected items on the homepage. I've 
> introduced 10 new items. It's not just the 5 last ones (chronologically) 
> that are my choice for the homepage. No, I pick them out. How to do this?
>
> Fot both problems the StartId options doesn't seem usefull, because the 
> number of items and also number of id 's keeps growing?
>
> And then, while thinking of picking items out in the back-end. How will 
> this back-end (list view) look if I have 500 items. Will it be just a very 
> long list / page? How to find back an item?
>
> Thanx in advance for the advice!
> Frank
>