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Related PostsDaily Mirror Breaking News The Daily Mirror Online is the gold standard for online news in Sri Lanka or, more accurately, the bronze standard in an age where everyone else is using sticks and voodoo. The Daily Mirror Online, however, is not actually good. Today, for example, they ran 'Addicts behind slayings', referring to the spate of beggar killings in Colombo. This conclusion, however, is sourced to exactly one beggar outside Town Hall, thus hardly a conclusion. In another Daily Mirror on WordPress Just to note, the Daily Mirror website is now using Wordpress. They're running the Revolution Magazine theme and a bunch of plugins, and overall its pretty well done. Wordpress is technically blogging software, but I've always thought it was well suited to a variety of sites. It's really cool that the Wijeya web team implemented Wordpress on such a large scale project, and did it pretty well. My only issues with the Daily Mirror site Looks Like Mahinda So Far You can follow the results at the Elections site, or easier on the Daily Mirror. Much easier on the hotlanka site, thanks @dilantha, @laknath. Actually, TV is probably still the best way to watch. Looks like the wheels fell off Sarath Fonseka's duct tape campaign and people voted for the incumbent. Which is pretty much the default situ. A minority of polls have reported so we'll see, but I think SF is polling less than Sri Lankan Papers Suck Blogs traditionally rehash the mainstream-media, so I've been trying to look at the papers/mags here. They are, however, eye-wateringly bad. I won't get into the design here, but the tilted photos and 4,000 colors make me throw up in my mouth a little. What's worse is that everything is profoundly biased. I don't even like the ones that are biased in my direction cause that's not what I read the news After Juliet, Tonight Till Sun Tracy Holsinger is directing 'After Juliet', a play which starts at the Lionel Wendt tonight. I believe tickets are on sale now at the Wendt and it runs till Sunday. After Juliet is a play written by Kiera Knightley's mother (not that that has anything to do with anything). From what I've read it covers questions like "Do the dead live because an amnesty is called? And if they don't live, can there be peace?" |
It doesn’t have category RSS feeds, which is annoying. but overall much better.
I dunno what it’s running on, it’s not WordPress. It seems like custom PHP
Has it not aped the NY Times style.
Is that why we find it so familiar ?
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Extreamly slow from this part of the world.
It takes more than a minute to download.
Well, DM was always slow and there’s still the WWW root directory issue. But are you sure this is a new design ? Look at the footer – copyright 2004.
However, it is running on Joomla.
try http://mobile.dailymirror.lk
works fine on my phone, via Opera Mini 5
what browser are you using, and what’s the phone?
Its definitely running on joomla.. a little control + U goodness from firefox and code analysis confirms that :)
interesting. They tried WordPress a while back but I think caching problems crashed their server. Perhaps Joomla is better out of the box
I think it is more due to expanded CMS functions in Joomla. But still that copyright tag makes me think it is an older version.