On the slate for this week’s session of the summer web design camp was article pages and different approaches to designing them. Thursday I sat down with Daniel, Jake Paul, and Ethan Klapper to talk over some of our favorite practices. Rick Martinez also joined us mid-way to add a fifth voice to the conversation.
Designing [...]
June 24, 2009
Design Camp Session Four recap: Designing article layouts
June 19, 2009
We Clicked On: WordPress, podcasts, and article page design
Our choice of the best links of the week are now at the top of We Clicked On (via the CoPress Publish2 Newsgroup):
Rebooting The News #13 – Excellent discussion about how news coverage is already rebooting itself in the context of Iran, and the “newsroom as a cafe” concept gets discussed (and recommended).
Gary Kebbel on [...]
June 16, 2009
Edit Flow Project: Stage 1 beta release
This past weekend, we released the beta version of Stage 1 (Custom Post Statuses) of the Edit Flow Project, a plugin aiming to improve the WordPress Admin Interface for a multi-user newsroom’s editorial workflow.
The main goal of this stage was to “improve posts statuses by allowing custom statuses.” WordPress, by default, only allows for two [...]
June 15, 2009
Design Camp session three recap: Building a better homepage
On the schedule this past week for the Summer Web Design Camp was ideas for radically redesigning homepages. Joey Baker led Jake Paul, Lauren Rabaino, Emily Babay, Ethan Klapper, Ben Leis, and myself participated in a discussion of some varying approaches to homepage design. You can watch a recording of the session over on Blip.
June 12, 2009
We Clicked On: The rise of the Data Scientist
Our choice of the best links of the week are now at the top of We Clicked On (via the CoPress Publish2 Newsgroup):
2.8 Release Jazzes Themes and Widgets – Daniel: New version of WordPress! Includes improvements to themes, adds multiple widgets, and offers more flexibility with taxonomies.
Rise of the Data Scientist – Joey: The responsibilites [...]
June 11, 2009
Five journalism graduate programs to consider
With more and more student journalists thinking about graduate school, there are many factors to consider in making the choice. In a rapidly changing industry, the options can seem a little daunting. In fact, this list was originally intended to be the “Top 10 Online Journalism Graduate Programs,” but further examination found that, well, a [...]
June 10, 2009
Design Camp session two recap
Last Thursday was the second session of the Summer Web Design Camp and after some technical difficulties Jake Paul, Will Davis,Lauren, Daniel, Mo Jangda, and myself discussed navigation menus and what could be done to drastically change them.
The session started off with a quick demo of creating drop-down menus in WordPress and the files involved [...]
June 5, 2009
We Clicked On: Open source Facebook app
Our choice of the best links of the week are now at the top of We Clicked On (via the CoPress Publish2 Newsgroup):
Facebook news application source code open to college news sites – NewsCloud has open sourced a Facebook application specifically for student news organizations. The application reportedly incentivizes activity around the news org’s content [...]
June 4, 2009
Code name “Nando”
A few days back, Max Cutler posted a hefty spec for the administration side of Courant News, code named “Nando.” I’ve finally had the time to start reading through it and boy am I impressed. Most notable thus far are: the pitch system, a genuine workflow based around statuses and user roles, and a heavily [...]
Wiki software comparison for newspapers
A review of three possible wiki software: MediaWiki, WordPress Wiki, or WikiSpaces. Lauren suggests WikiSpaces for its ease of use and simple setup process.
