newspaper

Hello all,

I am trying to create a high school newspaper website using Drupal, and the front page design is quite complicated. I am trying to create block-like regions of node teasers (similar to the New York Times) in a 2-column layout in the content column. I can't figure out how to do it. I have seen questions about how to put a block of the most recent posts in a certain category, but I want to put headline node teasers on the front page with different regions based on the taxonomy term. I also need to be able to have staff reporters to easily upload their articles so that these front-page stories can be promoted to the front page. Any ideas? I have attached a very basic design of the front page (without any CCK fields or anything like that). I hope that it helps.

Hi!

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Hi all! I was just introduced to this group by Ken Rickard from Palantir. I posted a case study for the Saint Louis Review, a local Catholic diocesan newspaper with an audience of about 500,000 Catholics in the metro area on my website: Case Study: St. Louis Review.

I want to make a sub menu like timeonline in Drupal for a Newspaper website. I appreciate any help, insights, modules to be used to achieve this type of a menu.

Thanks a lot.

Mansoor

I am looking into the options for a home page of a newspaper site. The basic design we are looking at is similar to the news.fedex.com site. This is the functionality we are looking for and haven't seen one with it. I have looked at slideshow, but it doesn't seem to be exactly what we are looking for. This also could have been custom built, but I'm not sure. I like the ability to click on a number and be taken to that article. Thanks in advance.

Hi,

Just wanted to pop my head in and let everyone know of the new release of ProsePoint (www.prosepoint.org), a CMS for publishing online newspapers and magazines.

If you look closely at ProsePoint, you'll discover it's derived from Drupal. In fact, it's a Drupal distribution bundled into a single tarball for easy download. Of course, that means there's third party code in there, but it's all in the name of making life easier for end users.

Hi,

We need a pro drupal developer to build an online newspaper based on Drupal. You will be responsible for the migration of the database (currently in SQL), the definition of the suitable architecture (apache, nginx;) and the development of the site itself. The newspaper will be somewhat similar to the observer.com (also developed in drupal). The deadline's short (end of the year) so we need you to start working as soon as possible.

In a few weeks we are going to re-launch our newspaper, and the new site is based on Drupal5. We are still running the install on one of our desktop machines running Ubuntu, so the performance is not close to what we except from the final product.

It would be great if some of you could take a look at the site, and tell me your first impression.

Can anybody tell me the best themes to use for newspapers? I just created my first newspaper site at http://www.postobserver.com but I have issues with the left column loading in IE7 and IE6.

What is the best theme for newspapers?

Hi,

Just wanted to announce the availability of the first (alpha) release of ProsePoint, a newspaper content management system.

Some things to note:

ProsePoint is a distribution built on top of Drupal 6.

It is currently alpha software and this is the first release. Hence, there are most likely all sorts of bugs and design inefficiencies. Please be welcome to try it, but use at your own risk.

It has the most customisation and add-on functionality of any distribution that I know of. The eventual aim is to have everything ready to go out of the box. No more searching for extra modules or testing of combinations of modules. Just install and go!