Your newspaper has earned its place as a unique and valuable part of your community. First Day Story maximizes the benefits of online publishing by enabling you to conveniently and profitably leverage the branding, models and standards that have built your newspaper.
First Day Story provides you with complete control over every aspect of your online presence, including your content, your readership and...
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Working to directly convert the strengths of a print edition to the online arena has often led to a square peg-round hole scenario for publishers, resulting in significant workloads and minimal reward. Increased penetration and new revenue through the online channel depend on the ability to create real added value. To accomplish this, First Day Story capitalizes on the inherent...
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Let's start talking about your unique online edition today. With an email address, we'll send you a link for you to easily upload a sample edition of your paper. Otherwise, provide a phone number and we'll give you a call to arrange a convenient time to talk.
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 First Day Story: An Industry Favorite
| Across the board, more than 40% of visitors to First Day Story online editions add the site to their browser's list of Favorites.
Your valuable content, coupled with First Day Story's online presentation, delivers the online experience that your readers are seeking.
- No setup fees: Get started today.
We've waived all setup fees for publishers who join the First Day Story community. And with First Day Story's flat monthly billing,... | | | Draw attention where you want it
| Clean, intelligent page layouts assure that your content is seen. The chart to the right superimposes our page layout over what studies have determined to be the average viewer's eye movement when visiting a news website.
Our layout makes it simple for you to prioritize both your content and your ads based on the exposure value you assign to them.
The developers of First Day Story are committed to providing industry... | | | Online Syndication Basics
| RSS has become increasingly popular, and appears here to stay as one of the newest forms of online content delivery. RSS is a feed system, often used for news distribution, that allows users to receive automatically updated headlines...without actually coming to your site. Then, once a reader clicks on a particular headline link, they are brought to that story (or possibly a login screen, depending on the permission... | | | Search engines and community newspapers
| Search engines, such as Google and Yahoo!, keep track of individual words within the publicly available material of a website in order to refer searchers seeking topic-specific content. Recognizing search engines as a useful and important tool for bringing in new traffic, First Day Story is designed to be search engine friendly. All URL's are constant, never leading a search engine or a reader to an expired... | | | Rule your domain
| Choosing a domain name (web address) for your Internet Edition is often one of the first tasks in getting online. Whether you are looking to simply add a "dot com" to your newspaper's name, or get a bit more creative, there are a few factors to keep in mind.
1. The length of the name. Don't ask your readers to type a bunch of words to get to... | | | | |
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"My experience with First Day Story has been extremely positive, smooth and fun. Our small weekly newspaper had a fine web site with another provider. However the First Day Story team showed us how we could improve the look, give our editors greater control over content (giving us the ability to have essentially a daily website), and, most importantly, how we could generate revenue from our web site. With the First Day Story team you are getting people who know what they are doing on the internet, who are willing to listen and creatively solve your problems, and who want you to succeed as much as they want to succeed."
-Charles O'Neill
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We have developed and implemented the dynamic membership directory used by the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors. Read about it in the Society's current newsletter.
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An open letter to associations
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