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niceuzor
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Hey Webmasters I really need you guys help
I want to build a very large site like that of Sun news Paper
Plz guys I do need tips on how to start up the Website…
Hope to hear from you guys.
Cheers.
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niceuzor
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how i'm i sure that u re the one that build that site? plz guy convice me  |
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feyisara (m)
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i have been working with sun since 2003 though am not the holy person that design the site we were 3 webmaster that work on the sun website we all put heads together to bring the site to life at least my e-mail shows that am a staff with the sun and that should be enough proved but if you are not satisfy you can check other site am working on www.laspotechalumni.com and www.estatetraders.org and in a couple of weeks i will be launching the first Nigeria Christan singles forum www.dynamitesinglesforum.com |
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Orikinla (m)
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Before you commence work on your dream newspaper website, do your homework by seeing samples of the best newspaper templates and know the cost implications. No Nigerian newspaper online meets world class standard presently. See the following for the best samples and at affordable fees. And follow the three simple steps. SamplesA modern online newspaper should have audio-visual features like Reuters. With only $2,000, you can have one of the best newspapers online. I wish you all the best. |
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niceuzor
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Thanks man but can't you give us a free Webtemplate? |
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totalfact (m)
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Comrade,
kindly provide me the load-down information.
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pmdaboh (f)
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Niceuzor . .do not expect the easy route. Someone sent you some samples of websites, which cost something, and I think you were less than "thankful". Sure, there are free design websites out there, but they may not contain everything that you want on yours.
Take the suggestions that you think can benefit you, do your "own" research, and do not look for quick and easy answers. Starting any business, whether online or not, takes time, finances, and research.
You are the "dreamer" of your business, so do not expect anyone to push it more than yourself. And, Niceuzor, a little business etiquette will take you far.
Best wishes!
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bolaoni (m)
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Guys, I have met Feyisara times without number and he is the one working on Sun's website. @nice, maybe you should outsource the job or if you want to do it yourself, Get to learn web development. How long that will take you to accomplish I don't know. But if you have all the time, why not go ahead. Feyi, I no see your hand again o. Was trying to reach out to you at the last BLF but seems you were in a hurry. How far now? Please let me know what is happening jare.  |
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rozilla (m)
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i suggest u try rubbing minds instead. or else u might find yourself attracting unfavourable attention from the police. |
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Anibe
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what you need to focus on is the CONTENT of the site rather than the design. Design can always be outsourced, or you could use content managment system (CMS).
But don't neglect the content, organise your ideas into pages and sections.
Good luck.
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Afam (m)
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No two newspaper websites are the same. Get a programmer that can write good codes to do anything online, it's your best bet. I feel sad when you hear people focusing energy on the wrong thing as regards web development. The whole of yahoo or google or youtube can be replicated with codes written from scratch by any good web programmer. If you are not ready to pay for the project then learn web programming yourself and then you can do anything you want. www.afamite.com is a pet project I work on anytime I have free time to burn, the only money spent on it is the cost of the hosting just to make sure that what I have on the machine works well on the net. Like someone stated, see the best newspaper websites out there and ask a programmer (not web designer) to build something similar and of course with additional features that may make sense in our own context here in Nigeria. |
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Egavlas (m)
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Hey Webmasters I really need you guys help
I want to build a very large site like that of Sun news Paper
Please guys I do need tips on how to start up the Website…
Hope to hear from you guys.
Cheers.
ok |
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pie1ect (m)
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Niceuzor
I really think you should worry more about developing the content for your website first before anything else. Organize it properly, and then you can think of how you want your site visitors to view it (the site design).
You'D truly be putting the cart before the horse if you do it the other way round and it's a sure path to failure.
I'D recommend the following steps:
* Determine who your audience will be
*Identify sources of content for your site
* Develop content that you believe will appeal to that audience
* Organize that content into categories (for easy navigation)
* Determine how you want your content layed out (now website design comes in)
* Get your domain name and hosting
* Upload your site and promote it
Good luck.
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my2cents (m)
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Architecture first:
What sections will you have? What CMS package (if you want to go that route) will you use? Are you going to go with a web hoster or have your own server(s)? How many hits do you anticipate (which would determine the hosting package) per day/month? Will you allow bloggers? Can/should people log in for special features? Will you have advertisements? If yes, what sizes/dimensions will you accept? Will you offer RSS feeds?
Content second:
Will you be uploading news items manually? Will it be CMS? Will it be from reporters, say, via XML feeds?
Design/Development last:
Once you have the first two, this part shouldn't take you much time at all.
In general, in my opinion, you should spend close to 80% on the first 2. A sound architecture is key here. If you don't get that down pat, your site could be a failure.
I hope this helps.
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deb (m)
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To build a proper Newspaper website, you need to understand the use
of Content Management system like drupal, joomla, alinta etc.
Correct me if I am wrong, my observation of the sun news website is that it is just a pure html site
with a few java scripting.
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bolaoni (m)
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I have told feyi they need to improve on that site o.  He can even attest to the hard work they do just getting the site up and archiving it. SUN You need a CMS for you site!  |
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Seun (m)
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SUN You need a CMS for you site! There's nothing wrong with the Sun newspaper website. Generated HTML pages are as fast as lightening! |
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my2cents (m)
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CNN isn't CMS' and it is rolling on fine. I bet it gets millions of hits per day.
This is where what I said above comes into play - you need a sound architecture. Again, looking at CNN, you will notice that their articles are named by date and title (cnn.com/month/date/nairaland.rules.html, for instance). I hv "tempted" them by referencing a link I saved a year ago and the article still exists. If you don't determine how you will link to articles/archive them, trust me, you will get big time headache as the site gets larger.
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Egavlas (m)
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CNN isn't CMS' and it is rolling on fine. I bet it gets millions of hits per day.
This is where what I said above comes into play - you need a sound architecture. Again, looking at CNN, you will notice that their articles are named by date and title (cnn.com/month/date/nairaland.rules.html, for instance). I hv "tempted" them by referencing a link I saved a year ago and the article still exists. If you don't determine how you will link to articles/archive them, trust me, you will get big time headache as the site gets larger.
To assume that Cnn website is based on a static site framework is simply unthinkable. There are multi categories, multi-sections, multi-regions(africa, world , etc.) There is no way that CNN website would be based on a static pages arrangement. There are CMS's (Content management Systems) that can be used out of the box, ie the way it is. On the other hand there are softwares that are written as a Framework(Content Management Framework). This enables webmasters, programmers to use the software as a frame work to build any Content Management application, be it news publisher, ticketing systems or portals. An organisation like CNN or BBC(I know of a certainty that BBC is based on a custom made Content managemt Framework), would know what it means to run such big sites on static pages. The mere thought of it would give any webmaster the shivers. CNN and by extension any of the newspapers sites that I know of, don't even use only one webmaster for the maintenance of the sites. Newspapers sites are built in such a way that different levels of authentication/access can be given to webmasters, editors, contributors and publishers to be able to log into the back-end and edit or post news items. This cannot be achieved with static page based websites. So please don't even imagine that CNN is run of a static pages arrangement.It can't be even remotely workable giving the size of the sites. The only thing going for non-databased newspaper sites are that they will use less processes on the server and the bandwidth usage will be lower thereby bringing the overhead of hosting fees lower. Also unlike CMS based sites, the site may load faster since there ar no calls made to database. If the sunnews papers is based off a static pages arrangement, then the webmasters maybe going through a hectic time maintaining that site. |
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kachi_face (m)
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Hi All, To the person that says cnn site is static - you must be dreaming. That a site's pages are html does not mean its a static site; by modifying the .hta file in the web server, you can build dynamic pages with a htm/html extension. About the sun website, its a great site, but the hard labour, i mean labour in archiving their data, its a hell one never wishes to be in. I have tried linking to their site severally, but their lack of permalinks is quite a disadvantage. About standard newspaper websites, look at http://www.nationalstandardonline.com - it has an unbelievable CMS system - i mean everything about that site is generated on-the-fly. Since they lost their grips with a good web programmer, they've been relatively sunk. @afamite - you've got a great stuff going on there. I loike your site, but, building a real news site is some work. You can check this one out: http://www.234world.com - here its completely powered by a CMS and everything about it dynamic, its got news from all over the place and , it's really cool. @niceuzor, you can glean some ideas from there, u'D see how the headlines from the newspapers are there, etc and actually you can load the homepage of sun and the rest of them right there, When people read news, they like to connect it. news is related, you take a little of this, and a little of that, that's y you'D think of having several related sources of information. gotta split! |
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my2cents (m)
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Weeell, I guess as they say, you learn something new every day and I have indeed learned one thing and fulfilled my daily quota  |
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bolaoni (m)
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Seun, as fast as lightening to the user but not easy for the designers. Let my friend come and tell you what they pass through in archiving the site. They do it every blessed day spending hours that would have been used gainfully. @my2cent, so good you have learnt something new bros, because I was  when I read your post. kachi, why didn't you get back to me again? Waiting to hear how far o. I am sure niceuzor will have his head full of ideas now, all he need do is take a step. |
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uniquelove (f)
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have you designed the site yet? If you still need the newspaper site contact me at depower4ever@yahoo.com to get a professional designed website with international standard. |
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deb (m)
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Seun There's nothing wrong with the Sun newspaper website. Generated HTML pages are as fast as lightening! To be sincere with you a newspaper website needs CMS. This is year 2007. Why should you run an electronic newspaper website like you are publishing news manually? |
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