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Our-Hometown, Inc. supplies newspaper website hosting that includes news and advertising conversion services. We focus on making our customers’ lives easier and profitable. Every week, we process about 3,500 pages of our newspaper customers’ content that includes over 6,000 articles, 7,500 display ads and tens of thousands of classifieds. Our-Hometown, Inc. provides three primary service areas to the newspaper industry. For newspapers looking for a complete easy to use website:
For newspapers with an existing website they are happy with but want to reduce the effort required to maintain it or add a highly profitable subsystem:
Our-Hometown, Inc. has been dedicated to continuous improvement of our products and services since our founding over 10 years ago. The result is highly reliable and functional products that focus on the reader, advertiser value and publisher profits, rapid turn-around times, and world-class hosting services. Ease of use is another one of our tenets. We expect to increase our rate of improvement and never allow our products to be hard to use or provide low value. Recently added newspapers 10/29/2009 - Mariposa Gazette of Mariposa, CA 10/12/2009 - The Cord of Blinn College, TX 10/01/2009 - Currents of Fairfield University, CT 09/16/2009 - Kingsville Record and Bishop News of Kingsville, TX 09/15/2009 - Clarion News of Clarion, PA 09/15/2009 - The Derrick of Oil City, PA 09/02/2009 - Sanilac County News of Sandusky, MI 08/31/2009 - The Banner of Brown City, MI 08/30/2009 - Tri-County Citizen of Chesaning, MI 08/27/2009 - The Burton View of Burton, MI 08/27/2009 - Grand Blanc View of Grand Blanc, MI 08/27/2009 - The Davison Index of Davison, MI 08/27/2009 - Lapeer Area View of Lapeer, MI 08/26/2009 - Huron County Press of Bad Axe, MI 08/19/2009 - The County Press of Lapeer, MI 07/22/2009 - Vermont Journal of Ludlow, VT 07/14/2009 - Plymouth Review of Plymouth, WI 07/02/2009 - Punta Gorda / Port Charlotte Florida Weekly of Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte, FL 06/24/2009 - The Sun of Hummelstown, PA 06/19/2009 - Spencer Evening World of Spencer, IN 05/28/2009 - Rockdale Reporter of Rockdale,TX 05/16/2009 - Cook County News Herald of Grand-Marais, MN 05/13/2009 - Tribuna of Danbury, CT 05/12/2009 - Stanwood/Camano News of Stanwood, WA 04/09/2009 - Lexington Leader of Lexington, TX 04/09/2009 - Putnam County Courier of Cold Spring, NY 03/19/2009 - Staples World of Staples, MN 01/06/2009 - Buffalo Press of Buffalo, TX 12/26/2008 - Ocean City Today of Ocean City, MD |
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Hometown Buzz Our-Hometown Adopts Drupal as its Content Management System for All Newspaper Websites Our-Hometown has spent the last several months transitioning all of our customers to Drupal, a new, state of the art, open source content management system. All current and future customers now have access to the following features and improvements at no extra cost: - all administrative functions are integrated directly into the newspaper website, meaning there is no separate administration website to log into and editing a story is as simple as going to the actual story on your site and clicking "Edit" - node-based content management means that stories and ads can be easily moved to other categories without having to worry about folders and filenames - for newspapers offering the PDF of the Print Edition, readers can now flip through the virtual version of the print edition with our new PDF Flip feature - Reader Commenting is now available at no cost for all customers, with a variety of moderation options - Drupal's modular structure means that new features can be designed and released at a much faster pace Our-Hometown is pleased to offer the only Drupal-based system for newspapers that is easy to install and use, and complete in terms of features and support. Please visit our clientele page to see Drupal in action! The Derrick's Pay Wall a Success One of our newest customers, The Derrick, has been featured in Editor & Publisher as an example that pay walls in the community newspaper business can be a success. “The [week after restricting our website to online subscribers only] we had already received enough subscribers and subscription revenue to pay for one year of hosting for Our-Hometown,” says publisher Ned Cowart in the article. Click here to read the whole story. Learn more about pay walls and whether they're right for your site by contacting our customer service department at 315-294-6932 or ops@our-hometown.com. Vote For Our-Hometown in the 2009 Knight News Challenge Our-Hometown has entered the 2009 Knight News Challenge for its work on bringing OHT customers a new and improved newspaper website features using the Drupal Content Management System. The Knight News Challenge is a contest run by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which funds projects and ideas that advance quality journalism in this digital age. Currently, Our-Hometown is the only Drupal based system for newspapers that is easy to install and use, and complete in terms of features and support. By entering this contest we hope to showcase the work we provide to all of our customers, bringing them the most up-to-date newspaper websites available. This grant, should we receive it, will enable us to make most of our software available to all our clients and the industry as open source. Click here to read our entry and vote for Our-Hometown! To learn more about the Drupal CMS, click here. |
