CoPress

In the summer of 2009 CoPress led a series of 6 sessions that focused on addressing the skills and ideas needed to innovate a news site. We aimed to create environment within which college news organizations, web developers, and editors can come together to collaborate and exchange ideas about their summer news organization website design projects.

The sessions centered around building the skills for a specific feature. We covered navigation menus, radical homepages, typography standards, news wikis, and special features. For more information on each session check out the links below.

• Session #6 – Features
  Jackie Hai of the Amherst Wire leads us through a session about designing rocking features pages.
• Session #5 – News Wikis
  Daniel Bachhuber and Will Davis talk about the power of a news wiki. Integration is key.
• Session #4 – Article Pages
  Jake Paul of the American University Eagle talks us through some of the things to consider when designing article page layouts.
• Session #3 – Homepages
  Joey Baker talks through his ideas behind creating a radically different homepage.
• Session #2 – Navigation
  Andrew Spittle discusses navigation menus and the best (and worst) practices.
• Session #1 – Introductions
  Some of the schools involved introduce the projects they worked on during the summer. The ideas that started it all also come up as does a recap of what to look forward too.