I have a need for a featured-stories/news highlights block for our community-licensed public broadcasting (non-profit) company. I'd really like to be able to end up with something like what you can find on abcnews.com (using javascript).
Specific ideas that we have regarding the design/functionality of the module:
- We'd like to have the ability to have multiple instances of the block (with different content on different pages/instances; for example, the content populating abcnews' block changes when you navigate to a different sub-section (politics vs. money, etc.)
- We have different types of information to provide users, so ideally, again, like abcnews we would be able to have a tabbed list of headlines (one tab "tv", one tab "radio"--tabs being optional; one instance of the player might not need a second tab)
- We'd like to use a Content type that is specific to the player--so ideally, this would be a turn-key module for drupal 5.x. We'd add the content and it would get sent to the block. Here again, the abcnews player incorporates most of what we would need, although we could get more specific if you are interested in this project.