News site for a computer illiterate user.

[ROUBOS]

Hi,
I want to create a site, similar to newsbeast.gr for a computer illiterate user.
It has to be simple and as automated as possible for the user to just input news items.

Can we display news items with their category name listed? Can we have it so wen the user creates a new item, to automatically handle the image size?

What would be the best way to setup such a page?

thanks

[datahell]

Can we display news items with their category name listed?

What do you mean? Display the category title next to the article's title?

...when the user creates a new item, to automatically handle the image size?

Yes, you need a small modification. I have recently written a how-to here in the forum for someone asked the same thing for component eBlog.

Elxis Nautilus would be ideal for this job, but it is not yet ready to be released...

[ROUBOS]

thanks for the reply

Yes display the category name next to the title. Would be nice to color code the categories or use an image to display the difference in categories.

The image size could me overcome by the iBrowser or by creating a class, and show the simple user how to select the class for the image.

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We have create a script that a user can publish content by sending an email.

If your customer are interested let me know.

[datahell]

The category title is already known. Open file components/com_content/content.html.php and modify it to suit your needs.

[ROUBOS]

OK,
for this news site, can we color code menu items that link to Content Categories or Sections? Then have the category/section name appear next to the content item title with the same color?
Cannot add a css class to a category or section in order to apply a different css style
maybe this needs a new topic