Try out Drupal
From Michael Grossman, our Web content guru:
We recently launched a test site of News-Record.com using an online publishing platform called Drupal. In the coming months, we hope to transition entirely to Drupal, an open source system that offers us the tools to more quickly develop our own dynamic, data-driven, interactive products.
You shouldn't notice many differences immediately. Our initial goal is to simply replicate what we offer under the old system (though we couldn't resist adding a few new features, such as more photos). We're confident the new platform will be faster than the current site, but we want to make sure we understand the new system and how to optimize its performance.
We need your help in benchmarking that performance. There is still work to be done on the beta site, including creating missing pages and cleaning up the little differences between how various Web browsers display the pages. But we invite you to explore the site here.
Comments (2)
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It's FAST! I had to re-read your post regarding duplicating the existing site.
Congrats to getting somebody to GREEN-LIGHT getting off your kludge system.
Posted on June 20, 2008 9:58 AM
(Been away)
Drupal page does indeed load faster and gets rid of that annoying page rebuild when it loads (y'know, narrowing the left column from a readable width to a silly narrow one on the page I clicked). Besides, Ben told me it was a good idea, so it must be.
BTW, the N&R rocks in terms of amount of online info compared to other cities I recently visited - esp when I was paying by the minute for Internet time. If the speed matched the content, I might be more "up" on the local news.
Posted on June 27, 2008 2:14 AM