College newspapers and Drupal
This thread is for colleges/universities who currently use or are planning to use Drupal.
My name is Greg Linch and I'm the editor of The Miami Hurricane at the University of Miami (Florida, USA).We're in the early stages of building our site.
To kick off the conversation, here are some blogs and posts discussing our redesign:
www.greglinch.com
http://www.greglinch.com/2008/01/video-themiamihurricanecom-redesign.html
www.willwooten.blogspot.com
http://willwooten.blogspot.com/2008/02/where-were-starting-and-where-wer...
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Dear Sir
I can resolve your bug and develop site in drupal.
Rajiv
quick thoughts
Some good ideas (like integrating blogs into the normal content) but having just one main story and using long lists for all the other stories is very dull. You should have 5 to 20 items (depending on what kind of publication you are) on the frontpage that you just want people to read because they're important and that are presented as such (bigger headline, photo). Beneath that important content you can add lists etc. for people who want to know and read more.
I'd also leave some more room for user input: not only "most comments" but also "most recently commented", and perhaps you could try and aggregate students' blogs on your site.
Personalized navigation can be interesting, but from my own experience I know that few people actually use it. I'd definitely try it out, but give it low priority.
me too
Us over at www.dailypennsylvanian.com are also moving over to drupal, starting with our weekly magazine's site, www.34st.com
This is Mike Wacker,
This is Mike Wacker, Assistant Web Editor for The Cornell Daily Sun. We've been using Drupal for two years. We use a lot of contributed modules in addition to several modules we've written ourselves. By the way, would I assume correctly that Penn will be at Yale's web journalism conference?
Another Ivy on Drupal
Also, I should add that The Columbia Spectator switched to Drupal back in the fall.
Yale Conference
Yes you would assume correctly. I looked at your proposal for MustRun as Google SoC project. Kudos, and I hope you get your funding. What functions did you need to write modules for yourselves?
Thanks, I hope it does
Thanks, I hope it does too.
In terms of version 1, I applied a MustRun taxonomy to all unpublished nodes currently in MustRun to separate them out from published nodes. In terms of modules, I don't think I made too much use of third-party modules; most of it utilitizes hook_nodeapi, the Form API (especially with hook_form_alter), node grants for permissions, and also the content module in core.
UPDATE: The Miami Hurricane chooses new CMS
This is somewhat old news, but here's a link to my personal blog about switching to WordPress (am I even allowed to say that here?)
The CMSes they are a-changin'
http://www.greglinch.com/2008/03/cmses-they-are-changin.html
Why WordPress?
I would like to hear about your reasoning for ultimately choosing WordPress over Drupal. To me, it seems like a real step backwards in terms of app functionality and maturity.