Ingredients for a music/arts-centric newspaper or magazine style site recipe?

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It seems like there are a lot of questions (and answers) regarding how to create a newspaper and/or magazine style site. I also noticed the WillieBHines just added this very helpful site recipe:
Use CCK to make a unique front page

Following his lead, I'd like to help contribute more ingredients that would ideally be mixed into a complete site recipe/install profile for a music/arts-centric newspaper/magazine style site. Having said that, here are a few examples, suggested ingredients and questions for something that could be titled 'use cck, contemplate, views, panels, and some other special ingredients to create structured sections and article pages'. Unfortunately I can't cook or write a good recipe.

Here are some examples of 'Music' sections and a full feature/article from that section:

Basic elements as follows:

  • Main section
    • Features usually have a thumbnail and an intro/teaser sentence that won't appear in the article; possibly may embed/attach an audio sample or some video
    • Subsections (ie Reviews, Interviews, Previews, etc.) may also have the same structure (thumb/teaser)
    • Other articles will usually just have the title
  • Article detail
    • title
    • author/credits
    • full size image(s) usually the full version of the thumbnail (caption/credit)
    • blocks with embedded/links to audio, photos, and video; links to purchase cd and/or downloads
    • upcoming concerts or events
    • links to related articles and websites
    • article tools such as rss feeds, email/print this page

Page recipe (or at least some ingredients):

  • use CCK to create separate node types (feature, review, preview, etc.); each content type will probably have the same specific fields
    • title
    • image - Give the author the ability to upload a main image that will be automatically sized as a thumbnail (placed in the teaser) and a larger size for the main body. Some examples here on how to accomplish this.
    • teaser - separate text field where user could enter a short intro blurb
    • body
  • Panels & views for each section/subsection
  • Contemplate to output each content type in a structured fashion.

Various questions:

  • What are the best ways to embed and/or link to related audio, photos, and video? Generate affiliate links (Amazon, iTunes, etc.) to purchase cd, video, and/or downloads.
  • Are there ways to generate links to related articles and websites on the fly? Generate links to upcoming events.

I'll just leave it there. Hopefully, this'll get the ball rolling. Any thoughts, questions, suggestions, examples, contributions will be extremely helpful.

Thanks,

Gus

cross-posted pretty much the same thing over here...

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Use CCK to make a unique

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Use CCK to make a unique front page.
What for it is necessary?

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