Posted by blavish on December 15, 2010 at 10:53am
We have a news site, we dont put out 100's of articles a day. Actually we post about 15 articles a day.
Our current design is the normal news layout but it seems as if the site is standing still because old content remains on the page too long.
What is the best layout for a slow news publishing website? Is it blog format maybe? Any tips?
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Layout
The 'river of news' blog style. Works well if you want to give all your news the same weight.
We have been testing out a newspaper layout with attached views and nodequeue. This allows us to arrange the page quickly and give prominence to an article over others, while allowing views (and radioactivity module) to react to users. So articles can climb up to prominence as they are more frequently read or commented.
As it stands it doesn't work quite as well as described. But it is quite promising.
We used this as a starting point:
http://adaptivethemes.com/take-control-of-your-homepage-with-nodequeue-v...