By imark on

I am delighted of the front page of the NYT http://nyt.com. So how it may be built on the Drupal, what the module it can? Many different blocks of information on the front page and the futher page with full text?

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jodo commented

look at channel nine.

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imark commented

Excuse me but what you mean the "channel nine"?

Best regards,
Imark

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fool2 commented

Manyt people are interested in using Drupal for real publishing. It's getting there, but without significant modification on your part you'll never have a NYT.

I have faith in drupal though. I was able make a decent newspaper website at http://www.sbindependent.org. I didn't do the main design but I put together some custom code for the front page. I will be rewriting it for 4.7 and will be sharing it, probably by the end of the summer.

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lopolencastredealmeida commented

If, by any chance, you have it available for the people, and working at least on 4.6.x, I would like to have it for a community project I'm planning to run here :D

Thanks.

Lopo

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fool2 commented

There are one or two annoying things that I need to fix before I feel it would be acceptable for the public. I probably won't release it on drupal.org because I can't maintain the project but if anyone's interested I'll give up the code.

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imark commented

Yes, it is fine site with nice two columns! It is not the NYT of course but very interesting for Drupal really!

Could you give some prompts how you've made such internet-paper: wich modules, theme, code, method?..

I would like to attempt make the front page of the site like this but on my own manner.

Best regards,
Imark

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fool2 commented

Our images are currently handled by image.module. I'm considering changing this for 4.7 but I haven't reviewed that yet.

Otherwise:

The categories are all standard taxonomy, except for blogs which are a special case in my custom module.

I also made a (mostly working) module that sets different levels of front page promotion. I will definitely have a good version of this out for 4.7. This allows us to choose if stories are displayed as links or as teasers with a picture on the front page. It also controls the lead story which is ontop with the big photo.

Almost everything else is hardcoded into the module or into phptemplate templates. This I also hope to improve for 4.7 so that things can be arranged by a settings page.

The first time I tried a design like this I did it using (I think) summary module (http://drupal.org/project/summary)

That didn't work for me though because you can only organize by taxonomy and not by priority. I don't think it was well maintained, either. Also, it didn't play well with images and required a lot of micromanagement to get it a certain way.