Selecting number of news items on frontpage

I have a homepage which has a news headline system. Bascially via form the admin of the site can submit news which appears on the front page, the only problem is the news just keeps coming and I have a front page with too many headlines on. How can I make it so that say 7 articles appear on the front page and the rest can be accessed through some sort of archive? Perhaps a link underneath these articles to the archive? And the actual archive a page with the headlines listed that they can click on and view the story, the headlines listed in date order. How would I do this? _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.