Add Custom Notifications to FM Notifs

Is there a way to add my own notifications to the FM Notifications system? What I want to do is create some for recent site news, current contests, and some other things. I'm not sure if it's possible to add lines for those in the notifications list or just copy the notifications and put them in like a div with my other content? I'd also like to set up the unread function where the color or something changes when they haven't clicked the link?
Any help is great and I'm pretty aware of javascript, html, and css so could work on customizing it on my own if I'm given even some of the basic functions for it.

Hello,

Is this still a project you would like help to work on?

-Brandon