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- madirish0
hey jox man,
i have been involved with several projects as you are describing. the most near what you are looking to do being not a 'news' site exactly, but a large-scale publishing site that projected news as it pertained to about 12 different categories for this client's interests. very intense and very detailed (what data types were involved where, ect.)
short answer (IMO) is 'yes'- this sort of site could certainly be developed and tested w/in a month's time between 2 dev's. that would not account for load testing and workflow procedures (if there are publishing permissions in place, ect) but the functional aspects and thier logic working as spec'd i think is very reasonable.
the longer answer to this is *absolutly* in the technical specificaltions documentation/outline w/ the correct tasks and needs detailed so these are not having to be redefined during the process. i would also highly recommend evaluating what pre-existing sysytems are available to build from and the modules availabel to 'plug-in' as it were, to possibly solve some of the custom content types and/or functionality you will require.
overall, the problems lay in clearly defining how functional elements need to be spec'd so all involved agree on them, and the communication w/ the producers of the display code to ensure these things 'feel' as the director wants them to.
HTH.