Nowadays, communication over the Internet has proliferated, and online newspapers have become a medium for communicating personal matters or news that we cannot cover in conventional media, either due to the company's editorial line or due to censorship by corporations or the state. That is why we are going to give you some guidelines so that you can easily create your online newspaper.
One of the best options for creating an online newspaper is Joomla, because it gives us a platform friendly to SEO, SEM and fully responsive. Then our editors will be able to upload and edit the articles without having knowledge of web design and development.
Joomla
Joomla gives us a powerful content manager to create an online newspaper in a very simple and fast way.
For the developer
To develop the website, the latest stable version of Joomla has friendly URLs (SEO), its extensions and templates are fully responsive (they adapt to all devices), it includes sitemaps, YouTube and Vimeo videos are embedded easily, it installs easily, and you can increase the site's features with its extensions.
For the newspaper
You will be able to create categories and subcategories to organize the news, create a drop-down menu, and automatically insert the latest news and the most-read news on the home page.
And each article will have H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6 headings, and you can enrich the text and design with Joomla's basic editor or external plugins like JCE or JCK. You also have the possibility to make a blog category out of each menu item to list articles in the order you want.
Extensions
One of the most used extensions in an online newspaper is having the time and weather for your province or city in real time. For that we recommend Date and Time or Display Date and Time.
And if you need a more powerful search than Joomla offers, you can install AceSearch, which provides a very powerful component so users can perform their searches.
Social networks
Another great advantage of Joomla is the simplicity of integrating social networks into all its content, being able to incorporate the Share, Like and Recommendations from all networks into your articles. For that we recommend the AddThis – Bookmark and Sharing Tool plugin.
You can also add the Facebook Likebox Slider module to one side of your page so that users can access your Facebook page from your website.
Templates
We will finish with two commercial templates so you can give your newspaper a professional design and fill it with the latest technology. Without a doubt, two of the best providers of templates for Joomla are Joomlart and Monster, and from their wide catalog we have selected Ja Nex and Sports News.
We hope that with this guide you can create your online newspaper and express your thoughts freely, and that we continue fighting for a free and universal Internet so that corporations and national states do not leave our freedom of expression crippled.
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