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I work for a newspaper publisher that produces 9 weekly newspapers. I'm looking into using Drupal as a CMS for our web products. I read Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6 which helped me to understand how drupal works and to set up a site. I really like how the New York Observer is laid out and could use some help on setting up a newspaper site.

Below is a list of what I'd like to do and would really appreciate any pointers or suggestion you may have.

Hello,

In a newspaper website, there is a lot of pictures uploaded.

So the question is quite simple :) : how do you manage to name all of your pictures/images or the way you organise them so you can find them easily later. Or you dont care about that and you just upload them ?

Or is there an automatic renaming module (dont know if there is one) and you just add a description and a few keywords and hope to find it back when you need it.

Thanks for sharing your experience about this matter.

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Hi all,

We are working on a high school newspaper. We are wondering if anyone will share their theme for their front page. We won't just change the images and titles and use it ourselves. We just want a starting point. We plan to use panels and 4 views. (one for each section), we are just looking for example html to use as a starting point. If you would like to share this privately, use the contact form.

Thanks you very much,
Sara.

Ok, it's not anything great yet, but I'm using Drupal to put together an Online Coupon section for my grassroots journalism sites.

Things I still want to do:

• Track how many times each are printed
• Choose two (or more) coupons that you want printed on 8.5x11...
• Attach to PayPal for automation
• Auto expiration of coupons

I just noticed that groups.drupal.org has enabled an automatic preview for comments. Now a window is generated automatically to present a preview of a poster's comment, eliminating the need to click the preview button in order to see the comment.

I kinda like this feature. Does anyone know what module does this? And whether it could also be applied to content types, rather than just comments? And whether there are irritating side-effects to doing this?

Using taxonomy is a great way to organize your content and it seems that most newspapers on Drupal uses this method. But how do you make autogenerated menus from category-terms with pretty urls in a generel manner?

The module "Taxonomy menu" generates menus from category-terms but leaves you with ugly urls of the form: http://thisNewspaper/taxonomy/term/3, which can't be very search engine friendly.

Using views and making every menu-item by hand (pointing them to a view) gets you pretty urls, but is a fairly complicated way of making menus.

We are going to launch a new travel website.
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Let us know if you see any bugs.

It's the first stage of the project and we are looking to increase interaction with the readers. Do you have any User Generated Content suggestions?
We were thinking of uploading photos, posting stories and blogs, sharing tips and advice...
Please feel free to share your views below.

Thanks

I'm halfway threw setting up a newspaper site and I think I have everything figured out except the best way to approach the menu. Given its a weekly newspaper updating the menu by hand would be rough given the 50+ sections of the paper that would need to change. My first idea was to use views to limit the node with a single "checkbox" value then just show that View. But thats really going to screw with Google and I would rather use the Scheduler module anyway. Is there a way to setup my menus to auto update to the newest published article?

-RM

Hello All

I am working with an online youth media publication that is looking to upgrade their website/e-publication and I am looking to upgrade/switch them to Drupal. I need advice on the article adding, node add/edit screen and functionality.