This definitely sounds like a job for views. I could explain how to do this exactly BUT for your own learning you should install views and go through the documentation also as you will thank me in the long run for not explaining exactly how to do it. You do not need to do it the way you have started doing it already, Views will manage everything you have already tried to accomplish with listing articles.

If you want a shortcut without going through the documentation, click this which will give you a thousand tutorials to do what you want to do.

Create a block showing the latest of a certain content type
Is it possible to link directly to a tab on a backend page, using URL fragments?

In particular, I want to link to the "Manage Label / Options" tab on the "Edit Product Attribute Page":



I hope for something like /admin/catalog_product_attribute/edit/attribute_id/1/#product_attribute_tabs_labels where the URL fragment #product_attribute_tabs_labels is read in JavaScript and the tab gets selected.

If that's not possible out of the box, how could this feature be added with an additional script and without rewriting templates?
