How are news URLs done on squiz.net?

(Birdg) #1

Hi,

 

We are just building our News pages and we want URLs like the News section of squiz.net

 

News items on squiz.net have a URL of:

 

/news/this-is-the-story-title

 

How is this done behind the scenes? Are all news items immediately underneath /news (surely very difficult to maintain...) or is it using URL rewriting or similar?

 

It would be really insightful to hear how it is put together.

 

Many thanks,

 

Graham

(Nic Hubbard) #2

It would be directly under a Folder or Asset Listing Page.

(Birdg) #3

Hi Nic,

Thanks for the reply. Wouldn’t that result in a “bucket” of potentially thousands of news items? In that situation how would authors find specific stories in the Asset Map or Asset Finder?


Thanks,


Graham

(Nic Hubbard) #4

Hi Nic,
Thanks for the reply. Wouldn't that result in a "bucket" of potentially thousands of news items? In that situation how would authors find specific stories in the Asset Map or Asset Finder?

Thanks,

Graham

 

I assume in their situation there are not generating news like a newspaper would.

 

At Pacific Union College we organize our news items into year folders, which works really well and makes the URL quite nice and logical.

(Birdg) #5

Hi Nic,

That makes sense. Do you devolve news authoring at all or is it all done by a central team?


Graham

(Nic Hubbard) #6

That makes sense. Do you devolve news authoring at all or is it all done by a central team?

 

I post all of the News on our site. We have a team of 1, and a student worker. :)

(Tbaatar) #7

PUC has got to be the most under resourced University ever!

 

I would do what Nic says, create new folder every year to categories, and it makes logical sense to the user and the webmaster.

(Nic Hubbard) #8

PUC has got to be the most under resourced University ever!

 

I would do what Nic says, create new folder every year to categories, and it makes logical sense to the user and the webmaster.

 

Ha, yeah, it is hard to get more budget for things.