Hi all! I was just introduced to this group by Ken Rickard from Palantir. I posted a case study for the Saint Louis Review, a local Catholic diocesan newspaper with an audience of about 500,000 Catholics in the metro area on my website: Case Study: St. Louis Review.
I hope it's helpful for those of you looking into converting your newspaper into an online format, or for anyone considering porting their site from static pages or another CMS to Drupal (like we did). Views, CCK, ImageField and ImageCache were the big helpers for our site, and you can read more about the specifics in the case study. What do you think?
As an aside: We're using the Classified Ads module on our site, even though it's in an early beta - it's throwing some errors, and we're working on getting it to behave a little nicer.
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Nice
Would u pls give full details how u build it up
i am fed up with the newspaper site how to built it
which modules should we use
which views should we use
how to do theming in
thats all
i will be grate full if u give the details
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Those questions could take anywhere from a month to years to answer; no matter what CMS you would use for your newspaper website, you will need to begin with a lot of planning as to what kind of content types you'd need, what kind of needs you'd have for user-submitted content, and what kind of administrative options you'd need.
I just started with Drupal a few months ago, and I learned most of what I know from hanging out in #drupal and #drupal-support in IRC, asking questions in the forums, experimenting with small purpose-built Drupal sites, etc. I also purchased the "Pro Drupal Development" book, loaned about 10 books from the library on PHP and MySQL web development, and spent a LOT of time reading, experimenting, messing things up (in a testing environment, of course), and asking for help.
Start working, then ask specific questions. Do Google searches first, of course, because a lot of your questions may already be answered ;-)