Posted by jscm on February 17, 2011 at 9:55pm
Hi,
I would like to know what modules are used in The Economist Drupal 6 websites: http://www.economist.com
Also I would like to understand how are managed the Channels and Blogs Structures.
And also How are managed the subscribed content?
I think we could learn a lot from The Economist website. It is a great project.
Can you help me?
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Hi, anyone can help me to
Hi,
anyone can help me to understand how do channels and blogs seems like the economist website?
The channel pages are just
The channel pages are just CCK content types with node references and grouping of fields. Obviously there is a little extra detail but you can go a huge way with just building content types for pages
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Are there any tutorials on
Are there any tutorials on this - as someone coming from the editing desk and not the IT department?
About tutorial
There are lots of available on youtube.com.
If you prefer more professional tutorial then go for Lynda.com drupal essential training.
Lullabot is provide more advance training on different modules of drupal..
Case studies
You may also find it helpful to read through some case studies of newspapers/publications using Drupal:
Information newspaper: http://drupal.org/information.dk
Vivere Genova: http://drupal.org/node/1014582
Fight Back! newspaper: http://drupal.org/node/601688
Trinidad Guardian: http://drupal.org/node/371778
St. Louis Review: http://drupal.org/node/429448
The Economist: http://drupal.org/node/915102
New York Observer: http://drupal.org/nyobserver
Schamper (student newspaper): http://drupal.org/node/229368
Popular Science: http://drupal.org/popular-science
And others ....
Katrina
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