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The web based editor is WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) in that the story when published on the web appears just as the reporter entered it. The editor also allows cut and paste of Rich Text from other desktop applications that includes varying font sizes and types as well as tables and other complex objects. Pictures can be dragged and dropped into the story and formatting for pictures with captions is controlled with style sheets. These features are a huge jump from the <TEXTAREA> based story entry forms used by similar services.
Besides the editor, another component of the Content Management System is data fields associated with each story such as a "teaser" field that is displayed on the website on "section" pages with other stories' teasers. Additionally, reporters upload images from their PC that are automatically sized to thumbnail, regular and huge sizes and added to the story's assets but not necessarily used.
About Our-Hometown.com.
Since its inception in 1996, a vision for community newspapers on the web that recognizes and leverages the value of the unique content they generate has propelled Our-Hometown.com. to its position as the leading provider of well designed and implemented, industrial strength software, services and web sites for community newspapers.
Our-Hometown.com's technology includes a patent pending means of incorporating display ads run in a newspaper's print edition into the newspaper's web site thereby eliminating all the costs associated with creating ads for the web site. Our-Hometown.com's "AS IS" batch news conversion service accepts news in any format (QuarkXpress, Pagemaker, etc.) thereby making publishing every story on the web cost effective.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Stephen Larson
Our-Hometown.com
315-462-7013
scl@our-hometown.com
Sanford Bernstein
The Wave Publishing Company
718-634-4000
editor@rockawave.com
SOURCE: Our-Hometown.com