CoPress

Ok, so I'm curious to know how some of you have approached 'special sections' for your websites.

For example, this week, we have a special fashion issue. The only way I see to go about it right now is creating a new section titled "Fashion," and just deleted it after its run its course.

But I guess what I'm looking for it a more bombastic way to promote the special section. Something that could circulate in the media slider and direct readers to a different page with all the fashion articles listed.

Thoughts?

I concur with the pages concept. The Mustang Daily has experimented with this a little bit, which you can see here:

http://mustangdaily.net/hot-to…..ased-fees/

http://mustangdaily.net/hot-to…..s/economy/

Our developer is working on special pages for H1N1 and Michal Pollan at the moment. You could indeed put a house ad on the front page or the sidebar of your site to tease to these sections.

I'd suggest checking out this post that CoPress did as a design workshop over the summer (it helped our web editor a lot): 

http://www.copress.org/2009/07…..-features/ It's all about special sections!

Also, I wouldn't suggest deleting it after the topic has run its course. I'd leave the page active, but just remove the direct link from the homepage.