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I'm considering re-developing our newspaper website in Drupal.

So I've contacted two potential companies in our city. They both seem to suggest -- without any meetings to discuss site requirements in detail -- the cost will be about $15K Canadian for back-end and $5K to $10K for design.

So here's my newbie question ...

If so many newspapers are on Drupal, why doesn't a developer create a template -- back-end and design -- then sell it over and over again to publishers for a discount?

In other words, is it really necessary to start website design from scratch each time?

I recently saw someone post in regards to seeing a significant speed boost by switching to PressFlow's "enhanced/streamlined" version of Drupal.

However some googling and reading revealed no benchmarks on how much faster it is on average. Does anyone know how much of a speed gain we're talking about?

For comparison: The number I've seen tossed around for PHP accelerators is 15% for more complex sites.

Hello,
I am new to both Drupal and this group so please bear with me… ;-)

We currently operate an ‘on-line only’ local news site. We would like to add some premium member (subscriber) only content to our site to increase revenue. We serve a small area where everyone knows everyone, and are concerned that people will share their login credentials with all their friends. This will seriously undermine our revenue potential and must be dealt with somehow.

Hi all,

My communications team would like a news type of site with main stories, images, and have it updated regularly. I've had good success with implementing a lot suggestions that i've found on the group but i'm having trouble over one issue. I'm hoping to use panels and then have views as blocks but can I theme these view blocks? I would full control over styling and theming the panel and all the view blocks but i don't know the best way to do this. I haven't found any good documentation on this.

Geoff Maxey has released a beta of CASAA, the Context Ad Serving and Analytics framework. This is a unified tool for supporting any and all ad servers and analytics systems through plug-ins. A series of plug-ins not yet released (but coming soon) covers Google Analytics, Omniture, Yahoo Content Match, Yahoo APT, and Open AdStream. CASAA was developed for the Morris newspaper websites and is being released under our commitment to contribute back to the open-source community.

Hello,
I'm brand spanking new to Drupal and to this forum. I poked around a bit and didn't see anything posted on this topic yet.

I've just taken on a freelance project to create a newspaper (or newspaper-like) website for a client. So far what I know is that he wants to have different departments (I'm assuming things like "current events", "sports", "entertainment", etc.) and he also wants several different people to contribute content. He wants to be able to post different types of content: text, slideshows, videos, etc. Knowing this, Drupal sounds like a good solution.

David Johnson was wondering how we're handling images without getting sucked into the morass of img_assist and the various rich text editors. Our approach, which has some strengths (simple and idiot-proof) and some weaknesses (these images are not nodes), is as follows:

Both news stories and blogs are CCK content types. The key element is Emfield, more formaly known as the Embedded Media Field module. We use it with its close relatives Embedded Media Import, Embedded Media Thumbnail, Embedded Image Field and Embedded Video Field.

I'm really making headway into having a very usable website here, and I hope I'm not bugging anyone by asking for some expert advice.

I'm wondering how other newspapers, using Drupal 6, are handling online classifieds?

I've noticed there doesn't seem to be a workable out of the box solution for classifieds, especially if one wanted to charge someone to upload a picture, charge by the line inch, etc... But with this many newspapers using Drupal, I figure someone out there has to have done this before, and I'm just wondering what their solution was.

We wrote code for Drupal 5/Ubercart 1.x to implement Classified Ads that could be purchased online and are then copied by Customer Service Reps for print publication. The parts that deal with print aspects could, of course, be skipped for an online-only system.

The basic elements:

1. The custom module: 'our_classifieds.module'
2. Product Nodes
   • Taxonomy
   • Attributes
3. jQuery snippets
4. Requires custom_price module (uc_custom_price)

Hey all,

I've seen a few services on the web that offer a widget or plugin to a web site to automatically populate the show times for a particular area. Fandango, to mention one.

The newspaper site I'm building needs to have film listings available on it, and currently, all we are doing is copying and pasting the show times from our paper into our CMS (non-Drupal as of now), and we need to update those same files each week for the films coming up. Ya, not a classy way to show events.