[WebCom] News Items on new Drupal Site

[Tyler Mitchell]

On 2-Jan-07, at 1:16 PM, Jo Walsh wrote:

>> suggestions on how we ought to handle news items on the new platform.
>> I imagine there is some standard approach well suited to news  
>> flashes?
>
> Hm. What i would do, having had a look, is limit the front page to one
> 'spotlight' and put, say 3 links for 'latest news' underneath the
> introduction paragraph on the front page. Putting the most fastmoving
> content on the front page means we get indexed more regularly and
> probably get a bit more index priority.

I agree on this - reduce spotlights and stick 3 latest news links  
(date + title) below the welcome message.

This will take a bit (not much) work as the first page isn't really  
using blocks in its central content - as the import threw all content  
into a single page.  I can look at this tomorrow or Thursday  -  
perhaps Kanhaiya and Swapnil coudl help in the meantime.

The simple "story" content type is designed for things like news  
items - but we need a way to designate content as 'news' and have it  
tagged with a date that is different than publication date.  Nothing  
more than that really, right?  That is why we had our 'news' content  
type in http://community.osgeo.org.  (I'm still using this site for  
test/dev stuff, btw).

The spotlights themselves could be ported into a similar content type  
so they are more manageable to update, list, have teasers, etc.   
Almost everything you see on the sites are from raw HTML imports, so  
there are lots of areas we can now start to pick away on improving,  
categorising, grouping, automating, taxonomating ;), etc.

I'll be somewhat disconnected for another couple days, but trying to  
get some time online in the evenings.

Tyler