Masthead as a Module or as a Node

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Posted by jjmackow on December 5, 2009 at 5:16pm

I'm looking for opinions on Masthead content.
Mastheads typically have the following:

  • Paper's Logo
  • Slogan
  • Editor's name
  • Staff reporters name
  • Admin Staff, including Sales, Advertising
  • Mission Statement
  • Contact information for departments
  • Circulation statistics.

Does this information change enough that it should be created dynamically or as static content that can be freely edited?
I don't know if I'm doing overkill by automating its creation. Any thoughts?

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* Paper's Logo: Could use the

Posted by Shyamala on December 5, 2009 at 5:35pm
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* Paper's Logo: Could use the Drupal theme features logo for the same
* Slogan -> use Dripal's theme features slogan 
* Editor's name  -> Could be a custom variable - module...?
* Staff reporters name -> A page
* Admin Staff, including Sales, Advertising -> A Page
* Mission Statement -> Drupal's theme features
* Contact information for departments  -> A page
* Circulation statistics.  Could be a custom variable - module...?

For logo, Slogan and mission, check: http://drupal.org/node/171205

Shyamala
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Module or content?

Posted by jjmackow on December 5, 2009 at 5:53pm
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What I'm wondering though is, does it make sense to spend the time to automate the creation of the masthead. For instance, as attrition hits staff, is it too time consuming or confusing to have to maintain the masthead at the same time as the user profiles are maintained?
Is there a reason to keep a reporter out of the masthead even if they are still on staff?

If it does, then my module idea is starting to get complex. So the question remain's, is this a candidate for a module?

But thank you for your interest.

Dynamically Awesome

Posted by jameshclark on December 16, 2009 at 11:18pm
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You have access to profile fields through Views so it'd be relatively simple to create a page that's automatically updated.

In my experience, when set up properly, automation greatly reduces the chance of error. The fewer items that have to be edited when a change needs to be made the greater the chance that a.) the full change will get done and b.) it'll be done right.

I have done Mastheads by

Posted by _gramur on December 17, 2009 at 1:24am
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I have done Mastheads by simply setting up a Page and have everything listed within the body of the page if you have user profiles that you want to link on Drupal and their already created on your site then a simple html link should be suffice. That is my way of doing it, I'm sure other members here have a better way around it but I haven't ran into any problems doing so the way I described. My suggestion is go static.

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Posted by yelvington on December 17, 2009 at 4:12pm
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We've built our staff directories dynamically using Views and profile fields.

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