Non-automatic frontpages

Hi,


i know some of you are familiar with Drupal (i know Bob Doyle is ;), an
opensource LAMP WCMS. We are currently building a site using Drupal and
we want to run away from the standard 'latest posts in reverse
chronological order' homepage and move towards a more online
news/newspaper site look. That is, a main story, several 'second level'
stories, several more 'other headlines' and a few other content
blocks... Not so crowed as cnn.com but hopefully similar to
themorningnews.org. Hope you get the idea :)

So, i have to design/code something that allows editors to decide which
story of the published ones is the main one, pick a picture from the
galleries to join it, etc.., press submit and end up with a brand new
frontpage.

I'd like to know what are the standard taskflow and UI design for these
kind of tasks in online publishing and electronic media. Articles,
examples of  similar functionality in existing systems etc..

Thanks in advance
  


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