By clau_bolson on

I was wondering if I could use Drupal to build a newspaper site like www.clarin.com.
The front page should have teasers, in blocks of different size, with ads between the blocks.
I thought that views module would be a good choice, for instance, top block has news 1 to 3, then the same query but with an offset of 3 to display the next three after the add... it would be about 8 or 10 different "views" displays in the front page.
Question is, will somthing like this be too heavy to load?

Maybe there is another way. I'm open to suggestions.

Thanks.

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WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

Yes it can be done-- browse through the front page posts on d.o for some good case studies. Also see http://drupal.org/cases.

yelvington’s picture

yelvington commented

Drupal is rapidly becoming a major player in online news. See http://groups.drupal.org/newspapers-on-drupal for active discussions and links.

You're thinking along the right lines in specifying views with offsets. Panels is an ideal tool to support the layouts you'll need.

For performance, you should be looking at memcache, APC, and the Boost module. The database is likely to be your bottleneck, so don't skimp there.

My employer most recently launched http://www.cjonline.com/ and http://www.jacksonville.com/ on Drupal.

jceb3167’s picture

jceb3167 commented

I would recommend you to try the nodestream drupal distribution.
My website is done with it:
Check it at: http://www.opttic.com