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oldenough
Building a newspaper/magazine site!

  • 2007/2/9 15:19

  • oldenough

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Anyone with any example of anyone who have built a newspaper-like news site with xoops? I am thinking about the news module (1.5x or similar) or any other modules. I want to make a kind of online magazine with front page with news stories presented kinda this (just an example): Example news site

Also, I want to make shortcuts to collections of topics presented in for example the right column.

I have dived into the News module, but I just can't understand how to present the news in a more newspaper way? Anyone?
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PepeMty
Re: Building a newspaper/magazine site!

  • 2007/2/9 15:26

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  • Since: 2005/11/14


Take a good look at Article and pico modules, this last one from GIJoe (xoops.peak.ne.jp)

Warm regards from sunny México!
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raygauci
Re: Building a newspaper/magazine site!

  • 2007/2/9 15:33

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I would go for smartsection
we used it here in malta for a sports news site with the spotlight block from smartsection with success plus used 2 more smartsection clones on the site
The only problem with smarsection module (could be with others) that they consume a lot of database enq so do not be surprised if your site will become slow and slower...
Ray
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hervet
Re: Building a newspaper/magazine site!

  • 2007/2/9 16:34

  • hervet

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I vote for News 1.53
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PepeMty
Re: Building a newspaper/magazine site!

  • 2007/2/9 17:36

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Quote:

hervet wrote:
I vote for News 1.53



Of course you do, Herve, of course you do.


Warm regards from sunny México!
Pepe
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carnuke
Re: Building a newspaper/magazine site!

  • 2007/2/9 19:37

  • carnuke

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  • Since: 2003/11/5


News and smartsection have some subtle differences. Magazines are all about high profile visibility and I would move to use NEWS module on this occasion. Basically it has a good range of social bookmarking features that are very useful in this application.
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Mamba
Re: Building a newspaper/magazine site!

  • 2007/2/9 19:49

  • Mamba

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  • Since: 2004/4/23


Quote:

hervet wrote:
I vote for News 1.53


I like it, but is there any chance to include an option to have individual pictures for each news? See here...
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oldenough
Re: Building a newspaper/magazine site!

  • 2007/2/10 16:23

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Quote:

Mamba wrote:
Quote:

hervet wrote:
I vote for News 1.53


I like it, but is there any chance to include an option to have individual pictures for each news? See here...


That's the sad thing: Noone seems to have an answere to that. Your link referred is dead..
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gestroud
Re: Building a newspaper/magazine site!

  • 2007/2/10 17:11

  • gestroud

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Here's a good one
http://www.avantnews.com/
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Mamba
Re: Building a newspaper/magazine site!

  • 2007/2/10 20:40

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Quote:

gestroud wrote:
Here's a good one
http://www.avantnews.com/


I like this one better:

http://www.univision.com/

See like each category has a spotlight article, and the picture from that article also becomes a picture for that category on the front page.

Personally, I would love to have an option in the admin to choose for each category:

1) no pictures
2) category picture
3) picture of a spotlight article

Currently, we have (1) and (2), but we need the #3 implemented. If we could have something like Univision out of box, Joomla could be forgotten :)
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