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8/6/2009 9:27 PM
 

Hi

I am migrating a site for a client using DNN 05.01.01.
The main site consists of about ~100 pages, plus about ~ 140 news pages.
The news index pages shows a title, summary text and a link to each of the 140 articles in a long list, which then link through to the actual story.

In an effort to keep the content "managable" i was considering using the blog module to keep all the news articles in.
My main reason for considering this is becuase the 140 news pages are going to make a mess of the Parent Page drop down when you are editing any of the site pages or adding a new page for example.

I understand that the news content (in a blog) might not get found using the site search. (or does the blog "hook up"  to the site seach?)

My Question: Whats the best way to approach this?
1) Just enter all the site pages AND news pages as normal? and put up with the large list (~240 items) in the "Parent Page" dropdown when editing
2) or, Should i use the blog module?
3) or, Please can anyone suggest a suitable open source module for this kind of application?

thanks guys, your answers and comments are appreciated.

 
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8/7/2009 1:52 AM
 

Personally I would use Ventrian's News Articles module.

It does integrate with search!


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8/7/2009 5:39 PM
 

Hi Micth

Thanks for your reponse...
The Ventrian's News Articles module looks pretty good, i'll give it a test drive !

 
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