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Newsletter - - Page 11
7
Jun
Our-Hometown’s WordPress Publishing Platform offers customers incredible levels of website customization, making it easy for even novice web designers to bring their vision to life using the ever-powerful Customize Tool. You’ve probably read about the customize tool on our blog before, but today we’re going to focus on one of the most common questions we get from users customizing their website: What is the Default Sidebar widget area and how […]
2
Jun
Our-Hometown, Inc. is excited to announce that the Virginia Press Association has launched their brand new website on our WordPress Publishing Platform, catering to publishers, newspapers & association members throughout Virginia. The Virginia Press Association reached out to us in search of a new website provider once the contract with their previous vendor expired last month. After a quick tour of our platform and a demonstration of some of our […]
10
May
At Our-Hometown, we’re always working to improve our selection of products and services to make sure we have the tools that meet our customers’ needs, no matter how minor a request may seem. Our engineers have proven this once again with the release of a relatively small, but impactful, feature: the option to Display an Article’s Category on Article Pages. Traditionally, Articles published on our platform include the headline, sub-headline, […]
19
Apr
Our-Hometown’s WordPress Publishing Platform uses The Newsletter Plugin to drive our intuitive newsletter creation and mailing list management system. A recent update has made the plugin more powerful than ever with a number of enhancements that directly effect the “Custom Post Type” block used to pull articles from your website into the drag & drop newsletter template. The Drag & Drop Composer has always offered a lot of promise for […]
12
Apr
Our-Hometown’s WordPress Publishing Platform features a great Newsletter plugin for sending weekly newsletters, breaking news updates and other e-mails to customers who’ve joined your mailing list or subscribed to your publication. Thanks to some feedback from some of our customers, our engineers recently released a new update that allows any staff user with the Editor role on the website to change the sender name for your newsletter at any time. […]
12
Apr
The next in a series of webinars hosted by “The News Guru” Kevin Slimp and brought to our customers free of charge by Our-Hometown is scheduled for Thursday, May 6th at 2:00pm EST and will focus on Increasing Revenue by Designing More Effective Ads. “Kevin will cover the things you need to know to “up” your ad creation, meaning more effective ads and happier advertisers. This session is for both […]
9
Feb
View Post Kevin Slimp aka “The News Guru” hosted a special live webinar last week focused on some advanced techniques for creating a quality print layout in Adobe InDesign. Thanks to a special partnership with Our-Hometown, many of our customers were able to attend at no cost! Kevin covered a ton of great information during his presentation, and while it would be impossible to compact everything he went over into a single […]
12
Jan
Our-Hometown has a lot of great things planned for the year ahead, and we can’t wait to share more information about what we have in store. For now, though, we want to do a little self-reflecting on the past year and make sure we’re focusing on the right things in 2021. We’d love your help in getting some feedback! As a current OHT customer, you’re invited to take our 2020 Customer […]
15
Dec
Attention, Our-Hometown customers! The holiday season is officially in full swing, and we need your help to make sure that we have the resources available to handle any holiday-related requests such as early publishes, late publishes, or extra special sections that need to be posted online between now and the new year. If you are currently utilizing our PDF to HMTL Extraction Service, please LET US KNOW if there will […]
10
Jun
A powerful way to expand your newspaper’s reach beyond your community and local readers is to submit your content to news aggregate platforms like Apple News and Google News, who will redistribute it across their networks of users. This can help improve your publication’s search engine rankings and web traffic, which in turn can help increase your advertising revenue. We wrote a post about How to Appear in Google News last summer, […]
