http://web2newsportal.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=1 The mission of this project is to produce a small, easy to install, easy to operate, open source application for the purpose of publishing categorized, story based content to the web in a way that is friendly to individuals, activist communities, or small businesses. The web browser client runs HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The server runs an ISP friendly LAMP stack. Categorized Article/Story/News/Blog Publishing Web 2.0 Application en-us http://web2newsportal.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=11 Go here to learn where to copy the files to your system and what tweaks you have to make in order to get it working. This is where you can learn how to install the application. It is as simple as download, un-archive, and run a configure script which prompts you for various settings. There is also some info on SEO. http://web2newsportal.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=12 What other software will you need in order to run this application? This is where you can learn the software requirements of the application http://web2newsportal.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=2 Read this article to learn about the schema of the database. This area presents the data model used by the application. You may also be interested in the data dictionary PDF which includes database table and field definitions.{/erd.gif|Entity Relationship Diagram} http://web2newsportal.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=1 Read this first, if you wish to contribute code to this project. Here, you will learn about the architecture of the application. You can also download the data dictionary to read. http://web2newsportal.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=3 This article gives insight on how to customize this application to fit your needs. In this article, you can learn some tips and tricks on how to customize this application more effecively. http://web2newsportal.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=5 Why does this project exist and what types of individuals and organizations are best served by it? The vision for this software project lays out the needs that drive development and the projected market that it is intended to serve. We also discuss why we selected web 2.0 technology in a portal oriented form. http://web2newsportal.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=4 Start here to read about where this project has been, where it is now, and where it is going. Here, the road map for development of this application is layed out. http://web2newsportal.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=15 There are three levels of hierarchy that you can navigate through when browsing. A user can use the navigation hierarchy of the site if the user is browsing without a specific topic in mind. http://web2newsportal.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=14 Learn to use the search capability to quickly find a specific topic. A user can use the search feature to quickly locate an article if the user is keyword focused. http://web2newsportal.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=6 How do you manage mulitple sites with this application? The same application can be used to service multiple portals. This is what a site is. Here, you learn how to manage your sites.Understand that sites, categories, articles, and sections all require the selection of content that gets displayed in the story area when the user clicks on them. To that affect, you must create the content before you create the associated section, article, category, or site. http://web2newsportal.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=7 Categories make up the top level in the hierarchy of a site. A site is composed of multiple categories. Articles are grouped by category. Here, you learn how to manage your categories. http://web2newsportal.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=10 Use this table to determine the featured articles when a user first navigates to a site. The front door is what the user sees in the content area when he or she first visits the site. They can revisit the front door simply by clicking on the leftmost or site breadcrumb. The front door is organized as portal style boxes that allow the user to quickly navigate to these featured articles. http://web2newsportal.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=8 Each news story or blog entry is an article. Articles make up the second level of the hierarchy. Go here for a quick start tutorial on how to add an article. An article tells a story. It is divided into multiple sections. Here, you learn how to manage your articles.Here is a typical sequence of maintenance pages that you will visit when creating an article.You will click on the Maintain...Content menu followed by the add button in order to add the content for each section of the proposed article.You will then click on the Maintain...Content menu followed by the add button in order to add the content that gets displayed when the article is clicked on.Then, you will click on the Maintain...Article menu followed by the add button in order to add the article.Finally, you will click on the Maintain...Section menu followed by the add button in order to add each section to the newly created article. http://web2newsportal.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=9 An article is composed of multiple sections. Sections make up the third level in the hierarchy. A section is the largest part of an article that fits on a single page. An article is composed of multiple sections. Here, you learn how to manage your sections. http://web2newsportal.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=13 What is the front door and why do you care? When you first visit the site, what you will see is the front door.