By Bryan, on August 27th, 2009%
Quite a few college publications made upgrades to their web sites over the summer. As I am able, I’ll post a link to sites with new designs or new backend systems. If your site has undergone a makeover, drop a line in the comments or via e-mail to scmurley-at-gmail.com, and I’ll post something as . . . → Read More: Ch-ch-changes happen over the summer for college news web sites
By Bryan, on August 25th, 2009%
Lots of stuff to catch up on this week as school starts.
First off, CoPress launched a new version of their website last week. You can check it out here. They’ve updated their hosting plans and support services as well. For schools who are working with WordPress installations, this is a handy contact . . . → Read More: CoPress gets a website update
By Lauren Rabaino, on April 27th, 2009%
Update II: here is College Publisher’s response – ed.
Update: Full disclosure – Lauren’s newspaper, the Mustang Daily, is partnered with CoPress and after her CICM internship, she will join the CoPress team.Â
Since the Mustang Daily switched from College Publisher to WordPress two weeks ago (through CoPress), my inbox has been flooded with questions about the process. For all of you out there who still have lingering questions, this guide should provide all the answers .
The decision: Should you or shouldn’t you?
If you answer “yes” to one or more of the following, then you’re ready for the switch:
- Tired of not controlling your primary advertising spots?
- Wish you had an intuitive, user-friendly interface to work with?
- Ready for your site to not look like the hundreds of others in the college media world?
- Want it to be quick and easy to change the look, feel and content of your site?
A CoPress post entitled Can WordPress solve our College Publisher woes? from late September summarizes it nicely:
It (College Publisher) hasn’t been an open, adaptable system that allows students to truly innovate. You can’t open up the hood and fiddle around, or even replace the tires, because you don’t own the car. CP just lets you borrow it, in exchange for taking the profits from those gargantuan ads. That’s their business model, not necessarily a bad one for all customers, but inherently limiting.
If you’re in the same boat — and sorry for making assumptions, but you probably are in that boat — then now’s as good a time as ever to move on to a better system.
(If not, then I’ll quote an old inspirational poster cliché: “Change is not necessary. Survival is not mandatory.”)
Continue reading Ready to leave College Publisher? Here’s how
By Lauren Rabaino, on April 13th, 2009%
(Full disclosure: CICM intern Lauren Rabaino is the online and multimedia editor for mustangdaily.net).
Today marks the end of one long journey and the start of a new one for me as the online editor of the Mustang Daily. Even before I was online editor, I had a vision of making the Mustang Daily’s Web site something . . . → Read More: Mustang Daily leaves College Publisher, launches Wordpress site
By Bryan, on December 30th, 2008%
Yesterday, the student technologists at CoPress (where I host the podcast) announced something that’s been several months in the making: A hosting solution with CMS for college media.
This is an effort that takes a different approach from the dominant business model in college news hosting, that of College Publisher. Whereas College Publisher hosts web sites for . . . → Read More: CoPress offering hosting solution for college media looking to strike out on their own
By Bryan, on November 3rd, 2008%
As mentioned earlier this month, Brian Gardner has released version 2.0 of the well-known Revolution themes, all open-sourced. Check them out . . . → Read More: New Revolution themes available
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