Posts Tagged ‘WordPress’

 

Moving Newspaper to WordPress

A grow­ing num­ber of col­lege news­pa­per are mov­ing to Word­Press as a Con­tent Man­age­ment Sys­tem. For a time, Col­lege Pub­lisher seemed to be the only way a col­lege news­pa­per could be pre­sented on the web.

Has your paper made a switch in Con­tent Man­age­ment Systems?

How did it go?

What do you wish you knew before you started?

Show us your site. (Please)

 
 
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Power in the Pocket, Moving to the Mobile Web

From the days of brows­ing a bare-bones World Wide Web, where an occa­sional graphic was a treat, to our mod­ern fully-interactive, Flash and JavaScript media dri­ven web sites of today, a lot has changed.

To say the least, brows­ing the web has become quite a dif­fer­ent expe­ri­ence. We’ve reached a day where we don’t think twice to pull out our cell­phones to look up a quick piece of infor­ma­tion. “Oh, I’ll just Google that,” or “let me check Wikipedia.” We can do this in the blink of an eye and a fin­ger tap of a screen.

But where does that put us, the col­lege news­pa­pers of today. Many of our papers are just now get­ting online. Oth­ers are just now join­ing the social media craze. But how many of us have mobile ver­sions of our web site? (more…)