By agentrickard on
SavannahNOW, the online arm of the Savannah (GA, US) Morning News has been awarded the 2007 Digital Edge Award for Most Innovative Visitor Participation.
The Digital Edge Awards are the U.S. Newspaper industry's highest honors for online publication.
The site runs on Drupal 4.6. Using Drupal as the core platform let us develop rapidly and experiment with new approaches.
On a similar note, Drupal regular and evangelist Steve Yelvington won the Online Innovator award for his work pushing change in the newspaper industry.
To join the discussion of Drupal in the newspaper industry, drop by Drupal Groups.
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For the full story, see:
http://www.naa.org/sitecore/content/Global/PressCenter/2007/Online-Innov...
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Beta!
This is an excellent site. And great publicity for drupal.
But what I love the most is the beta. hahah! the beta just have to be there if its gonna be a web2.0 webpage.
Which makes me think..will web 3.0 be the final web?
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Omega
We all know that Omega is the Web 3.0 standard.
During development, we toyed with labelling the site Theta or Tau.
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Bravo
Man, do I suddenly wish this site had voting comments ...
Richard Burton
Nice site. This really shows
Nice site. This really shows some of the power of Drupal. Congrats on the award.
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Drupal power at its best.
Drupal power at its best. Great site really.
Drupal power at its best.
Drupal power at its best. Great site really.
wow
wow
this site has an awesome template.
very nice design
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Drupal getting attention
As I mentioned in the newspapers-on-drupal group, I'm fielding a lot of questions about Drupal at the Newspaper Association of America's Marketing/Connections conference in Las Vegas. I was on a panel discussion of social networking Monday and mentioned that Drupal powers both Bluffton Today and SavannahNow, and that we're rolling out a Drupal-based blogging/social networking setup to all 27 daily newspapers owned by Morris Communications.
Open-source software falls into an odd position between vendor space and roll-your-own. A lot of papers simply don't have the technical expertise inhouse to deal with even the most turnkey open-source software. (This seems crazy, but try giving a Drupal tarball to your grandmother.) Most papers that have any tech staff at all have hacked together their own solutions at one level or another, often because Joe Codemonkey really wants to write his own CMS. This has the obvious customization advantages, but also the usual disadvantages when Joe Codemonkey gets run over by a bus or runs away to San Francisco with his girlfriend.
For the latter group I'm explaining the benefits of participating in a development community.
For the former group, since Morris DigitalWorks really isn't in the hosting business, I'm invoking Boris Mann's name and pointing them at Bryght. If he actually gets any followups, Boris can buy Rickard a beer at the next Drupal confab. :-)
very nice site ! :) Has a
very nice site ! :)
Has a great community feel...
Marcel
http://diarist.com
http://diarists.com
Sigh
The design is nice but. . .
The site is slow.
Menu subnavs open and close arbitrarily. It's hard for the user to stay oriented.
My wish for all Drupal developers: that they read the book, Don't Make Me Think and take it to heart. Optimization wouldn't go amiss either.
Yup
I would agree that the site is overdesigned. But that's a totally different debate. (One that I've already had with our designers, in fact.) The initial design for the site was platform neutral. One of the challenges was making Drupal 4.6 (without theme regions) hit the design specs.
As for "Menu subnavs open and close arbitrarily. " They aren't arbitrary, they are section-specific (i.e. contextual). But I think they are a clumsy solution to the navigation problem of users being unable to find item X.
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Overdesigned?
Yikes, I don't like to hear that... That site has been my idol for a while. LOL! I'm not a designer at all so look to other sites for inspiration. I also had the idea of a more task driven menu before even seeing this site but wasn't quite sure how to work so many menu options in without being over cluttered. With the blockbar module you can collapse sections so I was already thinking along those lines. Then I saw SN.com and it was a lot like I had in mind and I figured if a big name site like that is doing it that it must be good. Now you're making me re-think. LOL
BTW, I looked at a couple of the other sites that got awards and they don't even come close in design, IMO.
Michelle
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This is an excellent site.
This is an excellent site. And great publicity for drupal.
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Congrats!
very nice site ! :)
Has a great community feel...
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very nice site.thanks man
very nice site.
thanks man :)
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