Excellent article!
Thank you very much for taking the time to share this with the rest of the Joomlapolitans!
I hope this will inspire others to follow!
I really liked the idea of creating Announcements and then only showing the ones that have content. Is it possible to show those announcements in a module or in content on the frontpage? Or for that matter any of the cb fields on the frontpage, kind of like the Latest Forum Posts module?