Posted by juan_g on February 1, 2009 at 10:48pm
In the section Modules: Content display, some newspaper/magazine modules are listed: E-Publish, Innovation News, E-Journal. If there were webmasters or developers in this group who have tried them, I think it would be useful for many of us to know your opinions and experiences. Thank you.
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I've tried E-Publish and
I've tried E-Publish and Innovation News and while they're definitely useful if you want a magazine-type website online quickly, most of their functionality can be accomplished using taxonomy/cck/views instead. I prefer the latter approach because there's less worry about upgradability (cck and views are here to stay), because it's flexible and because it just seems like the drupal way to do things. There are few or no large newspaper sites that use E-Publish or Innovation News, afaik.
Kill editionism
My own take? Grouping content into "editions" is inappropriate for the Internet. Transporting the limitations of print into the new medium is a strategic error.
Not all sites/publications
Not all sites/publications have daily updates. If you publish a weekly or monthly print publication and are wanting to post that content to the Internet, in one shot and not be doing any other postings for the month, then grouping it by monthly "edition" can make sense.
Sure, a site that has the same content for a month isn't taking advantage of the Internet medium, but it's not like we're being given the resources to keep adding fresh content.
Check out http://www.prosepoint.org/. They have edition capabilities built into it.
on editions...
For breaking news sites I think it is probably true that editions aren't taking advantage of the properties of the web.
But there is still a potential value to edition-type structures. There is a contextual aspect to editions--someone purposively determined that this particular group of stories were valuable. Nothing is better than reading a copy of some paper from the day you were born and "seeing" what people of the day were thinking about. Different sort of value to the "must be first" kind of approach.... just a thought.
i agree
having the option to group content in this way makes sense. (Like the nytimes "Today's Paper" page.)