Citizen Media Meets Mainstream Media on SanAntonioNews.com
Recently rolled out alpha version .04 of SanAntonioNews.com, an experimental local news site. This version of the site takes the lessons in RSS feed splicing and blending learned in alpha version .03 and plugs them into an open source publishing platform. I chose WordPress as the platform for this version mainly to see how it holds up as a lightweight Content Mangement System. So far so good.
For the template and CSS, I started with the Identification Band Quadruplets 4 Column WordPress Theme and modified from there. Even though the modifications made to the original design were somewhat significant, many thanks are in order to the author of the Quadruplets theme for sharing his work. There currently seems to be pretty slim pickings to choose from out there as far as four column WordPress templates go. His work proved to be a very helpful starting point.
On a related note, if you think you might be outgrowing your blogging platform and are thinking about a more robust CMS, take a look at OpenSourceCMS.com, a site that lets you try out many CMS platforms in one place. OpenSourceCMS.com isn’t related to the The Open CMS Project, which is an interesting JAVA XML based open source Content Management System.
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