Newspapers on Drupal

I have been wondering what might be the best way to create channel main pages.

For a site I am working this is what I have in mind.

i) These main pages will have different regions.
ii) Different views will be slotted in these regions.
iii) There are different node types and different vocabularies for each.
iv) Create a "page" page to use as placeholder. e.g. channelname

I am slightly stuck as to how to create a template file.

Should it be page-page-channelname.tpl.php or page-page-channelname(id).tpl.php.

I have seen panels but haven't liked it so much.

TIA.

Subir

Hi all,

Today was the big launch date of a new newspaper publication in Finland, uusisuomi.fi. The site is a free commercial online news paper. We started this project four months ago and have been extremely busy putting it together ever since. Anyway, the first and hopefully worst part is over as the site is up and running. I hope we can contribute to this group by posting a small how-uusisuomi.fi-put-it-together some day.
Some startup stats (after being online for 7 hours):

PlayingHere.com is site/service my brother has been developing that I think has hit the tipping point and now provides a more detailed list of live music in most US cities than what most newspapers provide. It obviously lacks musicians who aren't interested in reaching the MySpace audience (and has a lot of events from bands I personally don't care for... when did trash-christian get so popular?), but it's a great example of crowdsourcing.

As one of the admins of Newspapers on Drupal -- and one of the early adopters of Drupal in the newspaper industry -- I'll be in Boston on September 28 & 29 to speak to the New York Press Association. (Moshe is speaking as well.)

If anyone is interested in getting together for drinks, dinner, or general Drupal chat (I just came back from DrupalCON Barcelona), just post a comment or contact me.

I'm free Friday and Saturday night, and Sunday for breakfast.

[Edit: this was crossposted to far too many groups and has been reduced to just the Newspapers group.]

I am working on project "news website" and i want to use grid design, i want to start using a css framework "blueprint", anyone have experience with Blueprint with drupal!

check out a sample : http://bjorkoy.com/blueprint/sample.html

http://www.sontakey.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/example.html

Blueprint Generator

http://kematzy.com/blueprint-generator/

Blueprint project
http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/

Can panels or panels 2 do grid design

http://www.j-lab.org/ba07release_9-17.shtml

"TechPresident.com, a data-rich, nonpartisan group blog that covers real-time, online activity of the 2008 presidential candidates – and chronicles online content from voters who will elect them, is this year's $10,000 Grand Prize winner in the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism."

I've just put together a simple Drupal site for internal use at our popular science magazine. I can't share the site with you, but I've written a brief description of its functions and how it was built. I hope it may be useful for some other people.

Hello,

I'm porting an Italian newspaper from Joomla to drupal, I think I'm alone in my country who are doing that with drupal!

I need some suggestion\help from you :p

I'm searching a way for manage the New and Old article... I want to mean, remove from the Frontpage the Article of the last day and put the article of that day... I'v thought to the Scheduler module unpublishing the article on the next day... What do you thing about?

I'm stuck on a problem.. It is needed to create a newsletter for send the news trought e-mail... but they wanted something like that in the e-mail: