Intro and call for assistance...

best of luck. shoot me an email if you have any questions, etc. i've been doing this for over three years now on my own and have learned a lot.

i've talked about some of it at:

http://www.journalismhope.com

and

http://www.localjournalism.net

-kpaul

Hi Cyberpulp!

For any newspaper site, you are probably going to want to use CCK and Views modules, along with Contemplate to do some content theming.

I use Lightbox2 to handle the video playing aspects of the sites I manage - simply upload a file using the CCK filefield, and have it output a link to the video following the documentation at http://drupal.org/node/252276. I also use lightbox to display article-related images in a nice gallery slideshow.

For image manipulation, resizing and caching, you will want to use Imagecache with the new ImageAPI.

If you want comments on your articles, I would suggest the CAPTCHA module. Also, look at Advanced Forum if you want forum support.

As for an Ad Server, I've had good success integrating OpenX using the Openads module.

Get familiar with the Taxonomy, as it will be your friend in a project like this. Also, learn how to use the Nodereference and Computed Field CCK field types - they are far more powerful than most people give them credit for.

Finally, get comfortable with theming as that is the glue that will tie all the modules above together.

Good luck!

Brian Vuyk
Web Design and Development
Long Sault, ON
http://www.brianvuyk.com | brian@brianvuyk.com
(613)534-2916

Could help you! We use Drupal for our Local Newspapers, you can checkout http://www.mydigitalfc.com and
http://beta.deccanchronicle.com.

We did use CCK, Views and Panels to meet our needs.

One of the best writeups for Newspapers and Drupal is New York Observer's case study, visit: http://drupal.org/nyobserver

Netlink Technologies Ltd
http://shyamala-drupal.blogspot.com/

Thanks! We used CCKs, Views and Panels and created our own custom theme.

Netlink Technologies Ltd
http://shyamala-drupal.blogspot.com/

I was able to set up and modify the Innovation news theme with XXAMP on my laptop, but I am having problems installing the image module, keep getting a directory does not exist message. Anyone have this problem before? Tried to create the folders and permissions and deleted and reinstalled module to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Tried to no avail, everything else has been worked out on my dev site but this minor setback. I have researched and tried everything I know. Does anyone use XXAMP to build their dev sites? How does one change folder permissions on a laptop's c: drive (where it is installed), perhaps if I can get the folder to take a 777 permission it may fix my problem? I am so desperate, I need to have my site up and running so I can market it in the next week or so. Any help would be greatly appreciated and I would be very glad to trade out anything I am good at for such help. Bless you.

So you installed the module and it says the folder does not exist.
Did you install the module under /defaultdrupal/sites/all/modules
or just /defaultdrupal/modules ?

What program did you use to unzip the module file (actually untar) I usually use something like 7zip when I use windows..

You should be able to right click on the Folder in Windows and then set the permissions for the folder by clicking all the boxes for all the users. UNIX is setting 777 permissions, Windows uses a different permissioning system. One system sets permissions for who can access and the other sets permissions for who cannot access files.

Hope this helps...

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