One of the most popular activities online is news. A recent study shows 72% of Internet users check the news online. So much so that regular old fashioned paper newspapers are struggling to survive in a hard copy, delivered to your door format.
Think small
It is unlikely that you will be able to compete with the New York Times, but a smaller, focused news portal site is very achievable by webmasters and has an excellent chance of success.
Benefits to the webmaster:
Encourages repeat visitors by providing up to date information
Helps build links to your site
Helps rankings – Search Engines love up to the minute information
Increases revenue by from advertisements
Established your site as an authority
Dynamic Intel’s News Portal Site includes:
Easy Customized Template System
Easy to use template system with unique and powerful "Block" concept makes design and layout simple and fast.
Article Management
Add full featured article syndication functionality to your news portal. Powerful WYSIWYG Editor for handling any type of content on the fly, with no HTML experience required. Includes:
Single page articles
Paginated articles
Articles with attachments
Articles with slideshows
Add images to your articles
Re-size images
Complete control of pagination
Block Management (for content retrieval and display on templates)
Intuitive Block Management Module gives complete control and flexibility.
Features include:
Control html properties through Built In Blocks
Custom Blockfunctionality
Content Filtering for filtering articles/content by type, author, category, number of articles
RSS Management (Import/Export for content syndication)
Content Syndication is one of the best ways to send your message out to thousands of people and improve your search engine rankings.
Dynamic Intel’s News Portal includes a "Point and Click" RSS Generator for generating RSS and Atom Feeds.
Features include:
Category wise Feeds or Site Wide Feeds
Complete control from the Admin Control Panel
Quick and Easy RSS Feed Import
Powerful RSS Block Management
Users & Groups Management
Role Based Access Control: Group and User management module lets the administrator define role based access rights to different sections of the Admin Module of the Portal. This offers a distributed content management control with the Administrator having the overall control of the content being posted to the site
Example groups like:
Group for editors with permission to post, edit, delete articles in some/all sections
Group for web designers with access to some/all templates
Group for administrator with complete access level
Category Management
Powerful Category Control for both for the Articles and the Content Management areas Portal.
Category Management Features include:
Nested categories for well-organized content layout. A Individual control of Categories with User/Group management module
Add non-content pages like About Us, Contact Us, Privacy Policy and more.
Dynamic Menu Management
Ease Of Navigation Is The Key! Create customizable dynamic menus for your website drawn from the Categories and Subcategories you create in the Category Management module.
Features include:
Arrange menus horizontally or vertically
Create partial menus in different sections or on different pages
Photo Gallery
Add single or multiple photos to articles or create photo slideshow in article pages.
Gallery with Slideshow
Navigation bar (Breadcrumb
Breadcrumb navigation locates the current web page in the context of a navigation path.
