By Drupalisgood on

I want to make a web portal for my campus newspaper. does anyone have pointers in doing so? would it be a good idea to use the collaborative book for making up to date news for campus students? please let me know on how to get this started.

Thanks

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nonprofit’s picture

nonprofit commented

Hey Drupalisgood,

Check out Innovation News Installation Profile. Never used it myself, but it is Drupal 6 bundled with some modules which are pre-configured to help you get started.

Blessings!

-NP

Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented

I personally would not use the book module for news, its more for hierarchically structured documentation, where as news tends to be either one off items or part of a column or series.

Pretty much you can build a decent news portal with Drupal core only, using taxonomy and the story node type. It rather depends on what additional features you want in the site, in particular customised workflow (can be important for any sort of editorial process) and the presentation of the content - where modules like Views, Node queue & Panels come in mighty handy.

I would think you'll be wanting images and video, so take a look at imagefield, imagecache and perhaps emfield (for the video). These modules imply you'll be using CCK and building custom content types or extending the core content types.

I've built at least a dozen news sites over the last couple of years, so any questions just ask.

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