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21
Jun
In this commentary video, the Our-Hometown team engage in casual forum-style discussions based on an episode of the Lex Fridman podcast featuring Mark Zuckerberg. They highlight how Zuckerberg’s discussion about AI aligns with their vision of developing chat bots. The team mentions the availability of open-source AI models, such as GPT, and the potential use of Facebook’s AI in their own chat bot development. They delve into the importance of […]
3
Apr
Reverse publishing at the basic level is the process of creating and managing all of your content directly on your website, including articles, blogs, galleries, advertising, e-editions and so forth. Any of this content can then be exported as needed for use in a page layout application, such as Adobe InDesign. This method uses common XML to structure and tag your content simplifying the import process.
27
Feb
Copy Ad File Path Each user will need to set the local path to the folder that holds the Ad image files on your local computer. Instructions for finding and copying the path of your ad PDFs for each platform are below: Save Ad Path Into Your Profile Once you have the file path copied, log into your personal WordPress account (shared accounts will not work). From the WordPress admin […]
23
Feb
The Our-Hometown web platform utilizes the All in One SEO plug-in to provide a convenient interface to manage many aspects of the search engine optimization for your website. All in One SEO Setup All in One SEO provides a convenient wizard to guide you through the initial setup process, prompting for information about your website, including metadata, contact information, social links, and search appearance. All in One SEO Dashboard Step-by-Step: […]
17
Feb
Below we provide an overview of article creation on your website, managing images, ads, and reverse publishing content to Adobe InDesign. Video Guide 00:21 – Article Creation — Overview 01:24 – Common Block Types and Panels 06:43 – Advanced Layouts 08:10 – Media Library and NextGEN Galleries 12:23 – Reverse Publishing — Articles 17:07 – Reverse Publishing — Display Ads 18:37 – Reverse Publishing — Classifieds Article Creation Advanced Layout […]
30
Jan
In this walkthrough we will demonstrate how to include display ads in your Reverse Publishing export for layout and pagination in Adobe InDesign. From your website’s dashboard look for Reverse Publishing in the listing on the left. As you hover your mouse a submenu will appear then click on Reverse Publishing. Here is where your website’s article content can be exported for a particular edition and filtered by category. In […]
26
Jan
In this walkthrough we will demonstrate a method for exporting classifieds submitted via a form on your website for import into Adobe InDesign and pagination. From your site’s dashboard go to Forms and then the sub-item Forms where you will see all those being used on the website. Here we have a Classified Order Form with the submitted entries. You can click on Entries to view the individual submissions. To […]
26
Jan
At Our-Hometown, Inc. we understand the challenges that newspaper publishers face in today’s digital landscape, having assisted in combating these hurdles for over two decades. This experience has helped us to develop revolutionary features like our Reverse Publishing tool, which allows news publishers to easily compile, edit and publish their articles on the web before exporting them to InDesign or other layout software to prepare the print edition. Our Reverse […]
25
Jan
In this support session, Our-Hometown’s lead CSR Vera Lemonovich walks Emily Sachar of the Red Hook Daily Catch through building an info box as a sidebar within an article using the WordPress Block Editor. Topics covered include using the Columns block, adding colors, and article layout. Walkthrough Info boxes or callout content are great tools to lay out article content in such a way to make it stand apart from […]
19
Jan
Social media icons can display across all of your website content allowing visitors to share stories or posts they engage with to their favorite social network or via email links. However you may not want this feature available on some content. The following is a brief walkthrough on how to manage where these icons appear via your admin dashboard. Firstly the social media share icons appear in two main places: […]