Rick of Computer Professional Union and I recently converted the website of Pinoy Weekly, a weekly Filipino newspaper, to Drupal.
After they were convinced by Rick to shift to Drupal, we started to work on the project.
We asked them what will be the lay-out of the site and their graphic artist gave us their desired look. We tried to look for the appropriate theme and we came up using Zen, which proved it's ease when tweaking css.
We used the following modules:
1) CCK + Views + Panels: This 3 modules combined really can be very powerful. We created various content types, with varying fields and the Views module allowed this.
2) Scrolltext: They wanted to highlight the news in-between their weekly content and they wanted it moving
3) JSTools: Allowed blocks to be collapsed to make the front page shorter
4) Poormanscron: Mainly for indexing content
5) ImageCache + Image Field + Thickbox: Nice way of presenting photos. Imagecache really provides flexibility on how images are presented and Thickbox really outputs in a pleasing way.
6) Captcha: To prevent spam comments
Newspaper sites is always challenging since you really have to discuss how the workflow will be. Since they have many writers and all articles must be approved editors, all articles are unpublished by default and the editors are the one allowed to publish. Since it is also a weekly newspaper, the last week's content should no longer appear so we used the tip of www.lullabot.com to employ the sticky feature.
Initial reactions from the staff of Pinoy Weekly were all positive, with emphasis on ease of use. I hope more newspaper sites goes the path of Pinoy Weekly
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Great job, guys! Congrats.
Great job, guys! Congrats. Merong mapagkokopyahan later. :)
http://PinoyTechie.com | http://PinoyFilm.com | http://FilipinoWriter.com | http://WriteLit.com
http://PinoyTechie.com | http://PinoyFilm.com | http://FilipinoWriter.com | http://WriteLit.com
Salamat Dino. Sayang nga at
Salamat Dino. Sayang nga at wala pa yung localization into Filipino, pati sana interface FIlipino na.
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Drupal @ CPU
The Computer Professionals' Union has more than 10 deployments (for this year alone) of Drupal for non-profits with varying degree of participation from our volunteers. Most are training those organizations on Drupal CMS and guiding them on the set-up and actual site creation.
For the next year, we will continue to provide trainings for non-profits. We hope some of the members of this group can join us a volunteer (Thanks marc and DL!). In the process, you will get to know more on deploying Drupal on different organizations.
We will be releasing a Drupal deployment guide based on our experience to help the Drupal community in the country and non-profits early next year.
Our project called 3D Sessions (Down and Dirty with Drupal) will continue to channel volunteer talents to helping non-profits and people's organizations on drupal deployments. Here is a list of Drupal site we have been involved. CPU volunteers were involved on these efforts for free. It is always amazing to us how participants with average know-how on computers will eventually deploy drupal.
Actual deployments
1. www.cp-union.org
2. www.stopthekillings.org
3. www.karapatan.org
4. http://demolitionwatch.pinas.net
5. www.pinoyweekly.org
6. www.stexposure.org
Trainings and Consultations
1. www.iohsad.org
2. www.eilerinc.org
3. www.kilusangmayouno.org
4. www.actphils.com
5. www.kalikasan.org
6. www.bulatlat.org
If you want to be a volunteer, we have the following in line for early next year:
1. a site for lawyers (public interest law center)
2. enhancements for demolitionwatch.pinas.net
3. Drupal in a box for PO (people's organizations)
4. a collaboration site between computer geeks (cpu members) and creative geeks (artists)
5. Project people's web
So if you have free time, may be an hour or so every week, join us and be CPU volunteer.
rick