News articles on web site home page? [Module usage questions]

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News articles on web site home page?

2005/4/12 23:18
stermercox
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I've been playing around with some of the news modules, but none of them seem to be able to put a teaser on the web site home page. Either that or (more likely) I just don't know what the hell I'm doing. I'm building a site for a newspaper and would like partial stories on the home page with a "Read More" link that would require registration. Can anyone help or point me to a thread that talks about this?

Thanks...

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Re: News articles on web site home page?

2005/4/12 23:31
Wayde
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Hey there,

Use News 1.3 and the spotlight block that should be wat your after..

Take Care,

Wayde

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Re: News articles on web site home page?

2005/4/13 1:02
brash
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AMS 2.41 is another option. Or any of the otherversions of the News module (1.1 or 1.2.x) used with the spotlight module.

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Re: News articles on web site home page?

2005/4/13 1:28
stermercox
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I have installed News 1.3 twice and can find no spotlight routine. I have the following tabs:

Topic Manager
Post/Edit News
Permissions
Prune News
Export News
Newsletters
Statistics

After installing the module, I set the permissions, created a Topic, and added a story. But there is nothing that I can find about spotlight...

I appreciate the help!

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Re: News articles on web site home page?

2005/4/13 4:06
Wayde
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Hey,

Spotlight is a module by its self..
i use news 1.3 with the spotlight module...
you can find it
here

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Re: News articles on web site home page?

2005/4/13 14:51
stermercox
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No wonder I couldn't find it

Thanks for the help!

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Re: News articles on web site home page?

2005/4/14 0:04
stermercox
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Sorry to be such a dunce about this, but I can only get the spotlight module to put one spotlight at a time up. I need to have the ability to put several articles on the front page. Have I just got something set incorrectly or is this not going to be the solution to my problem?

Thanks again to all for the help....

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Re: News articles on web site home page?

2005/4/14 1:04
Lance_
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Since: 2004/1/12

Here are a couple examples of different methods for news.

On this site News is set as the default module to open in Preferences: Dogma West Coast

In this one it is set to show one News item and the rest are listed: LaFouine-Web

And here you have it as a block, just showing links to the news: The Lion's Den - Arena

With the spotlight you can do something like on the XOOPS site.

Just giving some different examples that settings give different outcomes.

Cheers

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Re: News articles on web site home page?

2005/4/17 19:34
lord_fornax
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It could be me, but i can't find news 1.3 anywhere..

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Re: News articles on web site home page?

2005/4/17 22:32
Shine
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If you are using the news 1.3 final module, the spotlight feature is build in the block: recent news. You don't need to download and install the seperate spotlight (hack/addon)

Finding this module:
Please use the search option on this site. There are several topics and news articles about this module findable at the 'Module Dev Forge' (see link left: Block->Development)

Grtz., Shine

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