http://newjournalismreview.com/2009/07/20/wordpress-versus-joomla-which-is-best-for-a-news-site/ Research about online journalism education in the UK. Blogged by a university lecturer Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:47:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://newjournalismreview.com/2009/07/20/wordpress-versus-joomla-which-is-best-for-a-news-site/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Guy Incognito Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:37:01 +0000 http://newjournalismreview.com/?p=11#comment-6 You're wrong on point #1... WordPress can organize categories in a hierarchy as deeply as you wish. As for point #2... A plugin like WordPress Menu Creator or NAVT will give you a full blown menu management system. Bottom line for me is, WordPress generates much cleaner code and it's interface is a million times more friendly and easy to use. Plus it has blogging tools (commenting, tagging, automatic archiving, etc.) right out of the box... which is exactly what you need for a news site. You’re wrong on point #1… WordPress can organize categories in a hierarchy as deeply as you wish.
As for point #2… A plugin like WordPress Menu Creator or NAVT will give you a full blown menu management system.
Bottom line for me is, WordPress generates much cleaner code and it’s interface is a million times more friendly and easy to use. Plus it has blogging tools (commenting, tagging, automatic archiving, etc.) right out of the box… which is exactly what you need for a news site.

]]> http://newjournalismreview.com/2009/07/20/wordpress-versus-joomla-which-is-best-for-a-news-site/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Freelance Unbound Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:23:34 +0000 http://newjournalismreview.com/?p=11#comment-5 Your point about categorisation is interesting - there's a good paper by Clay Shirky on taxonomy – <a href="http://bit.ly/8SHaq" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/8SHaq</a> – in which he critiques the old-style top-down, library-style categorisation as not being very relevant to the internet. Instead, sites like Flickr that let users tag their own content however they want, and then use software tools to show how people are searching the tags, are reinventing how we understand categorisation. That may not work for a structured news site – but at the moment I'm working on a web project tagging content which is proving less than satisfactory, mainly because the taxonomy that has been created is too rigid and too little thought has gone into the purpose of the tagging (ie what ultimately will it achieve). Your point about categorisation is interesting – there’s a good paper by Clay Shirky on taxonomy – http://bit.ly/8SHaq – in which he critiques the old-style top-down, library-style categorisation as not being very relevant to the internet.
Instead, sites like Flickr that let users tag their own content however they want, and then use software tools to show how people are searching the tags, are reinventing how we understand categorisation.
That may not work for a structured news site – but at the moment I’m working on a web project tagging content which is proving less than satisfactory, mainly because the taxonomy that has been created is too rigid and too little thought has gone into the purpose of the tagging (ie what ultimately will it achieve).

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