Drupal : A Newspaper Content Management System (Newspaper CMS)

The staff at Maine Web FX has been involved in Drupal development for the several years and have delivered local and international websites based on Drupal's superior content management system. Some examples of Drupal's flexibility and solid code base can be found at the platform's website www.drupal.org.

Because Drupal is an open-source application geared specifically to content managed websites, the coding in the site is top-notch and the flexibility is unparalleled compared to any other content management system on the market. This type of content management system is superior for newspapers because of its flexibility and customization options.

What can Drupal do for my print-to-web newspaper site?

Using Drupal for a print-to-web site is rather straight-forward, since Drupal is kind of built to be a web publishing tool. With Drupal you can, for example:

1. Customize what kind of data you wish to have in an article. You can, for example, have not only header-teaser-body, but also newspaper section, editor, issue number, publishing date, links, etc.
2. Automatically create article lists according to selected criteria, showing latest sports articles, highest rated article during this week, all articles written by a chosen reporter, or the three latest comments on your newspaper site. These lists may be presented as frontpages in different sections of your site.
3. Set end-dates for articles, to unpublish them automatically.
4. Allow a group of users to access only some articles or only parts of articles, while another group of users may access more content on your website.
5. Use different layout themes on different parts of your website, for example to make your Life style section of your web site look different than the Sports section.
6. Automatically display recommended reading to a user, based on how that user rated previously read articles.
7. Create RSS-feeds to alert users when new content has been published.
8. Allow comments from readers to be published instantly, or after approval.
9. Allow editors, reporters and other selected users to add, edit or delete selected types of content, including comments from readers.
10. See statistics of how readers navigate your site, and where your readers come from.
11. ...and more. If you have a specific question, please add it in the discussion at the bottom of this page.