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As of Jan. 2005, you may instead (if desired) easily add our content to your Website, by simply copy/pasting a block of HTML code onto your Web page(s). Best of all, it's free with no form to fill out, and works with any Website or blog.
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Getting Started
Once you sign-up to use our content (it's free!), you simply use the following procedures to repurpose our archived articles for your online newsletter, industry news site, or printed company newsletter:
- Choose A Content Category
First, pick an appropriate article content category for your audience, such as "Book Publishing News." You can find article topics on either the News Categories page (from menu at top of page), or selected categories in the light blue box on the right side of every page on this website.
- Find Content to Use
As you scroll down the list of headlines and article summaries on the news category page (using the "Book News" category as an example), you may find one or more articles that would be appropriate to use, related to new books, authors, and publishing companies. Once you locate a story you're interested in, you can usually simply click the headline, or for newer content there will also be a red "Get News Article" text link underneath the summary paragraph.
(Tip: Click here to open a separate browser window of the "Books..." category page, so you can view that at the same time as you review this "How it Works" page.)
- Retrieve Article(s)
Once you click a headline or "Get News..." link, as noted above, you will be transported to one of our news article archives; either on Send2Press.com, or PRnetwire.com. From here you have several options, but the simplest one is to choose the copy/paste method. As you look at the news article on the archive website, you can highlight (using your mouse) the entire article from the byline (who wrote/edited the news item) at top, down to the last paragraph of the actual article. You can skip any site-related links or content found at the bottom.
- Paste Into Your Content System
Depending on whether you use a web publishing tool like Dreamweaver, HomeSite, or a print publishing application like QuarkXpress, InDesign, or MS Publisher, the amount of "cleanup" you will need to do may vary. For many modern website design applications, your pasted in content should work as-is, since it will automatically convert double spaced paragraph breaks into the correct HTML commands. If not, you would need to put the <P> code between each paragraph manually. Most print publishing tools will assume a double line break is a new paragraph, depending on how your style sheets (i.e., in Quark) are implemented.
If you need a logo, photo, or additional information on the company, product, or service found in the article, you may click the "Read Text Version of News" link found at bottom of article, to find the contact person from the company. Please contact that person directly for images, or additional information and not freeNewsArticles, PRnetwire, or Send2Press.
- Add Required Copyright Credit and/or Hotlink
Per the free content license agreement, you are required to include a hotlink and copyright notice when using an article from our archives in any electronic medium including website, e-newsletter, PDF, etc. Example:
Copr. © 2004 Send2Press™ - www.Send2Press.com
(You can simply copy/paste the HTML from the above box, if needed.)
If you are using an article in a printed newsletter, company journal, or similar, you would use the same text including the URL, only without a hotlink (obviously). If you use an article from Send2Press "as-is" (verbatim) either in print or electronically using the copy/paste method described in Step 4 above, you should also include the byline (editor's name found at top of article). If used in print, please mail us a copy of the printed publication.
- That's It!
As long as you follow these guidelines and our terms and conditions of use, you can publish the archive article content as you see fit.
Add News Headlines To Your Site Automatically
The simplest way to add extra content to your website(s) is to add our free business, entertainment and technology news headline feeds to your home page or news page (limit one placement per unique web page). This will place approximate ten (10) headlines and brief story summaries, updated dynamically as we publish news. Using a simple copy/paste javascript (see box below) "snippet" you can place the news headlines right where you want them.
Click here to see a "live" plain example with a simple table width of 350 pixels.
You may easily customize the look-feel of the feed to your site, including background colors, fonts, sizes, etc. Visit our how-to pages by news topic for instructions.
Important! You may only use the above code on ONE page of each website (unique domain name). An example would be on a home page, or news page. Abuse of this code will result in I.P. blocking and complaint to your hosting provider — please act responsibly!
Reminder: in order to utilize the news articles found in our archive categories in your printed newsletter, or online publication (website), you must first sign-up for our free usage license.
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