Newspapers on Drupal


I need help for my news site www.assamtimes.org - a nonprofit venture - if I am using a bad theme (bad coding/loops) or a bad module.

After I upgraded to D7 a year back, the site became CPU hungry (or is it normal!)

• At this point we have a max of 15 articles posted per day.
• I have also disabled the default search.
• with .htacces, I have blocked bad referrers - which I suppose added extra load
• right now using the basic TMA theme
• reduced google news bot crawling rate
• I am also looking for a lowest (cost) possible, but high performance hosting.

Hello all.
Pls can you help to spread the word for the upcoming Drupal Application Development Training.

The training is set to commence from Mon 5th August till Saturday 11th of August 2013.
The venue is No.1 Victory Street, Area 1 estate, Off Suberu-Oje rd, Casso Bus stop, Alagbado, Lagos
Training resumes by 9am and closes 5pm daily. There will be a 1 hour break for refreshments each day.

Cost: N25,000.00

Every attendee is expected to come along with his or her personal Laptop.

I'm just wondering if anyone here has used the web widgets module being developed by Phase II technologies on a Drupal 7 site? (http://drupal.org/project/web_widgets)

It's still in the alpha stages, but I wanted to see if someone could share their thoughts on its use. Being able to export content from a Drupal site via embedable widgets would have lots of value for a news site.

Does it worked well?... Is it easy to export/embed?... How is the styling was handled?..., etc...

Thanks.

Hi,
I own a small hyperlocal news website and have a limited budget.
I am using Open Publish 3 and was using the Gazette theme that came with it, but people didn't seem to like it very much.
Since then, I've bounced around from theme to theme and I've been unsatisfied.

Most premium themes cost about $40 to $80. I'm willing to pay $300 or more for a good one that has ample space for advertising slots.

I've decided that dynamic display blocks are really over rated. I'm just looking for an attractive, newsy-looking theme that is easy to customize.

I am looking for a module or method to inject banner ads (these would be direct sales banner ads, sold and placed by the site owner, not Google Adsense ads, etc.) into a teaser list at a certain spot in a teaser list (for example, the default front page when Articles are promoted to the front page). For example, I would like a banner ad to appear after the third teaser listed on the front page.

Please see attachment.

I guess there is no way out of this except for a backup restore .... yes?

I had just installed OpenPublish and was enabling many modules at once.

Does anyone know how to place different ads on specific sections of articles?
For instance, I plan to sell sports article ads to certain businesses and obituary ads to other business.

I am using SimpleAds.

I have tried cloning Article Detail Page in Context, calling it Sports Article Detail, and then adding the Sports Taxonomy but that did not work.

What is best option for selling access to content based on this input:

1. User can buy one node
2. User can buy edition (taxonomy term - several articles are associated with this term, free and paid)

Have someone example for Drupal based site?

for now i have made small research and see that mostly people use
time based subscription by selling roles (Ubercart)

Additional it exist several other examples but nothing concrete.

I will appreciate every Drupal example with supscription, also i am interested in Userpoints integration.

tnx