That’s right, after a long wait the Oregon Voice website is fully remodelled using
WordPress an excellent open source publishing application, also referred to as a Content Management System (CMS). Of course there are many CMS’s but WordPress is a good one, and you’ve probably seen it in use dozens of times without even realizing it. The Oregon Commentator uses the same software, so a shout out to those guys and girls, who have been at it for a couple of years now. The Daily Emerald is using yet another CMS system called College Publisher which is a corporation with approximately 450 other, similar sites. This is probably a good thing cause it makes it easy for the publications that use it cause it simplifies the act of maintaining a website and allows them to sell ads easily. The only downside is that College Publisher gets a cut of the ad revenue, and according to the news section on that site, they are about to be acquired by MTV networks. In any case, it’s no big deal.
Basically what all CMS’s have in common is the ability to manage RSS feeds and comments, and keep everything well-organized in a database, so everything is easy to syndicate and whatnot. So hurrah for that.
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