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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.

As newspapers, we are taxonomy nuts. Surprisingly, there isn't any documented best practices for how to form and use a taxonomy tree.

I am in the early phase of deciding on a main taxonomy tree for 6 newspapers and would be very interested in knowing how others run things.

Some questions:

• Did your main taxonomy start from a pre-made tree? Associated Press offers one but are there others?

• Do you include geographical information (State, Region, City) in your main taxonomy tree or do you rely on a set of address fields.

After trying CCK for our bylines, I decided to make a taxonomy term for authors instead. I want readers to be able to click on bylines that lead to a taxonomy page with all of the author's published stories.

My set-up looks something like this:

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Hey -

I am looking at setting up a way for my newspaper site to handle "photo essays" or articles that are simply a collection of still photos.

I have played with Views and the Views Slideshow module and achieved the desired end result, however that will work for a one-time configuration. I am looking for a solution that will support multiple "photo essays" that are added on the fly to the site...

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

Is anybody working on an implementation of Google's "standout" tag?

http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/recognizing-publishers-stando...
http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/answer.py?answer=191283

Note that it can either be a link or meta tag, which makes me think a minor modification to nodewords for d6 would do the trick.

I'm sorry if I've overlooked this, and I'm sure I have...but for you guys who use Drupal for your newspaper and have content that is exclusive for paid subscribers, what modules do you use to make it work effectively?

What I envision are abbreviated nodes that will request users to login or buy a subscription for the full version.

What modules/solutions are you guys all using for site search?

We were using Apache Solr in our early days ... but we had issues with it (took forever to index, had to turn the index rate way down because of server load).

We're now using Google Site Search, which I'm pretty happy with, but there is a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth because we do not have a sort by date feature.

Are there any other good alternatives?

I'm looking to build a news framework over the summer using Drupal. I've settled on the Pressflow version and the Precision theme to build my child theme. I now need help finding tutorials on building panels aimed at news sites. Any suggestions?

I've been developing a website for several months now which I intend to launch before I graduate from college in the fall. It'll run as an online magazine and blog with fresh content rolling in weekly. I've been eying VPS hosting but don't know which package to choose from. What amount of RAM, storage space and transfer allotment is good to start off with?

Hello there,
I am quite new to drupal but I was very impressed with some of the newspaper sites using Drupal, and have decided to use Drupal for developing my newspaper website.
However , there is one functionality that I need, which is calculate the fee for each publisher when an article is published, so that the manager of the website can see how much money they owe to each publisher.
I have gone through the forum but haven't found a module that do the job.
DO you guys know any thing like that, or do I need to write a module on my own?

Thanks for your help.