galwaynews.ie - informed involved infront

www.galwaynews.ie is a news portal for Galway, a joint project of Galway Bay FM and the Connacht Tribune group.

These two organisations are the main sources for news in Galway, so it was great to work on a project involving the two of them.

Preparatory work on this project involved discussion how two different editorial approaches could be combined in a single news site. Care was taken to craft a publication workflow that worked for both organisations. We established that the two organisations had different expertise in terms of providing news - Galway Bay FM for immediate news, and Connacht Tribune group for considered analysis.

The site is built on Drupal 5, with a number of contributed modules key to the success. The Ad module is used for banner and block ads. Modr8 is a key component of the workflow system and the station module proved extremely useful for displaying the current Galway Bay FM schedule.

Other contributed modules include pathauto [great for SEO], weather, webform and xmlsitemap.

The current site is considered a first version, as both organisations get used to online publishing. A number of enhancements are planned for the next version - wait and see!

This site was developed while working for Proactive Design and Marketing.