Max Cutler

Today’s post is about the optional use of issues in Courant News. I was orig­i­nally going to write about arti­cles, but the Fly­ers game went long and I’m run­ning out of time in the day to do due jus­tice to that topic. That will hope­fully be tomorrow’s post, but now on to issues.

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Today’s brief post will cover Courant’s main­te­nance mode. This mode allows autho­rized staff to view and per­form work on the site while the rest of the world sees a sim­ple mes­sage inform­ing them that the site is cur­rently unavail­able. There are a num­ber of uses for such a fea­ture, which I will describe briefly.

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One of the big prob­lems with a cer­tain pop­u­lar online pub­lish­ing plat­form for col­lege news is that the ser­vice takes a major cut of the site’s ad rev­enue in return for cov­er­ing the host­ing and infra­struc­ture costs. There­fore, a major appeal of mov­ing off said plat­form and run­ning your own site is that you get full con­trol of your adver­tis­ing. Today’s post is about how we han­dle ads in Courant News.

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Today’s topic of dis­cus­sion is sta­tic pages in Courant News. Vir­tu­ally all sites have sta­tic pages of some sort, such as an About page.  Fol­low­ing is a brief overview of how we have han­dled such a com­mon feature.

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In keep­ing with my attempt to do one blog post each day, today I’m going to talk about media in Courant News. One of the largest advan­tages of the web over print is the abil­ity to pub­lish vir­tu­ally unlim­ited amounts of mul­ti­me­dia. Whereas arti­cles often have at most one pho­to­graph asso­ci­ated with them in the print edi­tion, we have the abil­ity to pub­lish all kinds of mul­ti­me­dia with our arti­cles online: pho­tos, videos, audio clips, inter­ac­tive graph­ics, files, etc, etc.  First I’ll look at the rea­sons for doing this, and then specif­i­cally how Courant News han­dles media.

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