[Solved] news details hiding and link as a menu item?

[meatPopsicle]

Hi Everyone, this is my first post here (do I need to do an 'first post' somewhere else?)...

I'm trying to customise the news display so that each news item just shows without stating the category and author at the top when you click on the article - is this possible?

Also, I'd like to post a link as a main menu item, rather than creating a page/content item and setting that to display as a link - how do I do that please?

I'm sure I'll be back with more questions, but thanks in advance for your input
Fred

[Dr.CSS]

What shows up in the News article is determined by the news 'templates', look in content > news for them, as far as news making links in the page menu it's not a default action you would have to be very creative to get it to work, one of the reasons is that each news article displayed on a page has to be called with the {news articleid='2'} tag...

(optional) articleid="" - This parameter is only applicable to the detail view. It allows specifying which news article to display in detail mode. If the special value -1 is used, the system will display the newest, published, non expired article.

[paulbaker]

Also, I'd like to post a link as a main menu item, rather than creating a page/content item and setting that to display as a link - how do I do that please?

Sounds like you need:
Content -> Pages -> Add new content -> Content type drop down: Redirecting link -> Fill in the blanks

[meatPopsicle]

Thanks guys, very helpful!