sander-martijn wrote:
When I first set up my site, I added a story to the home page which now appears there but isn't editable from the home page. Can this be changed?
If you mean, can the home page actually be a different, editable page, then yes: go to Admin > Site configuration > Site information, and there's a "default front page" setting near the bottom. You can then change this to point to any other URL on your site, including e.g. a node of type "Page" which you can put editable content on.
Out of the box, Drupal sets the default front page to be the same as /node , which (again out of the box) produces a list of the last few nodes to be created and "promoted" to the front page. This is why you're seeing the story on the front page: if you added more stories, they'd probably appear there too.
Cheers, J-P