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Start Your Own Online Newspaper for Fun, Learning and / or Profit!Scroll down to see the extensive yourStudentNews online newspaper features. yourStudentNews.com can help your students gain valuable writing / journalism skills plus organizational, teamwork and business skills. yourStudentNews is also a great way to enhance your student's high school to college portfolio. Students publish their articles, polls, photos and artwork online through an easy to use and secure administration area. All submitted material is approved by a sponsor / supervisor before it is displayed on the public site. yourStudentNews.com can be an effective and unique fund raiser for your homeschool association, school or club. Or are you looking for a legitimate work-from-home opportunity to make a little extra income? With yourStudentNews.com you can earn by selling local advertising, running Google advertisements and creating your own Amazon bookstore. yourStudentNews.com is a great way to enrich your student's educational experience and serve your community at the same time. If you are curious about what a live yourStudentNews.com site looks like, browse a live site! yourStudentNews is not just for student organizations: It also works well for small businesses, churches and clubs. |
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| Five (5) User Definable Sections | a | a | a | ||
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| Private Photo Gallery | 100 MB | 250MB | 500MB | ||
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| Transfer Rate (monthly) | 250MB | 500MB | 1GB | ||
| Disk Space | 100MB | 250MB | 500MB | ||
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| One Time Setup Fee | $25 | $75 | $99 | ||
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Discounted Home School Pricing (Equates to as low as $5.75 per month) |
Annual Fee: $69 |
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Discounted Private School Pricing (Equates to as low as $6.59 per month) |
Annual Fee: $79 |
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Discounted Public School Pricing (Equates to as low as $7.42 per month) |
Annual Fee: $89 |
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Discounted Church Pricing (Equates to as low as $4,91 per month) |
Annual Fee: $59 |
Annual Fee: $99 |
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Discounted College Pricing (Equates to as low as $10.75 per month) |
Annual Fee: $129 |
Annual Fee: $199 |
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Local Club Pricing (Equates to as low as $8.25 per month) |
Annual Fee: $99 |
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Small Business Pricing (Equates to as low as $12.42 per month) |
Annual Fee: $149 |
Annual Fee: $249 |
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yourStudentNews Features Frequently Asked Questions |
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There are no limits to the number of articles that you can publish through your online newspaper with yourStudentNews.com. In fact, the more high quality articles that you publish, the more visible your site will become to search engines and the more valuable your online newspaper will be to your reader community.
We are sometimes asked if we provide content or editorial services: currently we do not.
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RSS Syndication is built into yourStudentNews.com for each
section. This allows other publications to link to your
online newspaper which increases the visibility and traffic to
your site.
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All of your articles are transparently stored in an online database and will remain available to your readers - even after new issues are published. Previous articles are automatically archived with each new issue of your online newspaper and are easily searchable by title, author or other keywords.
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Articles are entered directly online through your administration portal. Writers can use common word processing features such as Bold, Italic and Underlines in their articles. Moreover, more sophisticated users can copy and paste HTML code into the editor for even greater customization of the look and feel.
Each article can include any number of pictures.
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Your readers can search your online newspaper, including all previous issues, with a user-friendly embedded search engine. Search by title, section, author or any other keywords.
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Copy and paste HTML from your favorite web page editor (such as Microsoft Frontpage) to give your articles more pizzaz.
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Extend your online newspaper by creating custom pages through the administration portal. The links to your custom pages automatically appear in the navigation menu and are persistent across all issues of your online newspaper. You can truly make yourStudentNews your own by creating custom pages.
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Five (5) User Definable Sections
Easily define your five online newspaper sections through the administration portal.
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Define interactive polls, questionnaires or surveys to embed alongside specific articles to engage your reader interactively with your content. Create unlimited polls with up to 10 answers each.
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Your readers can click on a PRINTER FRIENDLY button for each article to produce a version that is formatted for them to print.
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Along with yourStudentNews.com you will be given access to a private (only you can access) online photo gallery database for storing the pictures for your online newspaper articles.
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Public Domain Photo Gallery Images
We are building a photo gallery database of public domain images that you can use to supply your online newspaper with content relevant images that are copyright free.
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Each author and section editor can define their own byline through the site administration portal. The author byline will be displayed along with their articles.
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Each author can optionally include a biographical information profile that your readers may view.
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The title of your online newspaper is up to you and once defined will automatically be displayed at the top of each page.
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During the setup of your online newspaper, you will be given an opportunity to tell us about the color scheme you would like. We will set up the color scheme of your online newspaper according to your wishes.
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Custom Masthead / Header Graphic
You can supply your own artwork for a custom masthead or let us created it for you!
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Our administration portal is password protected and each user (reporter, editor, photographer, etc.) that you define can be granted appropriate access rights.
The administration portal allows you to schedule issues, setup and manage your staff, manage reader submitted articles and letters, create custom pages, access your online photo gallery database and more.
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Easily manage and communicate with your staff through the administration portal. You can define titles and roles and grant or limit access of your staff to their sections. The administration portal also allows your staff to collaborate on articles.
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Configure your online newspaper issue schedule through the administration portal. Our system is designed primarily as a non-daily online newspaper (weekly, monthly, quarterly). Set your schedule and your staff can work on the current or any future issue in advance.
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Reader Submitted Article Management
We provide an easy online form for your readers to submit their own articles for your consideration. Articles only appear that you accept / approve.
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Reader Submitted Letter to Editor Management
We provide an easy online form for your readers to submit letters to the editor for your consideration. Letters only appear that you accept / approve.
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Transfer rate indicates the incoming and outgoing traffic that your site can handle on a monthly basis. Don't worry, we won't shut you down but may issue alerts regarding site traffic. We offer easy upgrade plans to help you out if your traffic gets heavy!
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This is the amount of disk space allocated to your system. Don't worry, we won't shut you down but may issue alerts regarding disk space usage. We offer easy upgrade plans to help you out if you need additional disk space for your online newspaper.
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We provide email support during normal business days and hours.
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You will be given access to a support site that will help you with your site.
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All yourStudentNews.com online newspapers are hosted by us. Your web address will be in the form of www.yourStudentNews.com/MYSITE/ for Bronze Package or your own domain name from Silver and Gold Packages.
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All Bronze level sites will have an address of the form "yourStudentNews.com/YOURSITE/"
Higher level online newspaper sites can have a dedicated domain name such as www.MySchool.com. The domain name is up to you and is limited only by availability. We take care of registration and annual renewal. We will even help you select a name and confirm its availability.
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Silver and Gold packages include branded email address that you can use to enhance your image with readers.
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To help you earn money from your online newspaper, we can help integrate Google AdSense into your site. This will require you to establish an AdSense account with Google.
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Amazon is widely consider the pioneer in affiliate marketing. We will help you create an Amazon A-Store (branded online bookstore powered by Amazon) and integrate it into your online newspaper. This will help you earn money from your online news and provides a service to your readers.
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Silver and Bronze packages include traffic statistics to help you understand who is visiting your site. These statistics are integrated into your site administration portal.
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Try yourStudentNews.com for 30 days and if you are not satisfied for any reason, we will refund your annual fee. You must notify us within 30 days of your purchase.
Sorry, we cannot offer a refund of setup fees because we are unable to recover our own costs associated with providing this service to you.
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The one time setup fee is a non-refundable charge to allow us to configure the look and feel of your online news site, establish your domain name, email, photo gallery access and other one time activities.
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National / International Pricing
Our service is intended primarily for smaller locally focused online newspapers. If you have an idea for an online newspaper that may have a national or international readership, please email us and we will be happy to discuss your needs and provide you with a reasonable quote for establishing your online newspaper.
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Do you need features that are not available in our predefined packages? Please email us and we will be happy to discuss your needs and provide you with a reasonable quote for establishing your online newspaper.
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Customer Agreement: By purchasing this service you agree to the following: You and / or your organization acknowledge that you are purchasing a service, not software, and that you will not use this service for any purpose other than to publish an online newspaper that is suitable for viewing by families and children - you will not publish any violent, pornographic or any other form of obscene material. If you violate this policy, your site will be closed immediately and without notice and you will not receive a refund. Depending on the nature of the violation you may be reported to law enforcement. Purchaser is solely responsible for, and accepts all responsibility for the content, messages, images and files published using the service. No warranties are expressed or implied. PURCHASER'S SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IN THE EVENT END-USER REJECTS THE SERVICE SHALL BE A REFUND, WITHIN 30 DAYS OF PURCHASE OR RENEWAL OF THE CURRENT ANNUAL FEE, IF ANY, PAID BY PURCHASER . Your site will indicate Home School, Private School, Public School, College, Church, Club, or Business Edition according to which edition you purchase. This is the only difference in versions, other than pricing. This notice will appear as a footer at the bottom of your site. We discount for education related organizations and religious non-profits. Setup fee is non-refundable. You credit card or PayPal account WILL NOT be automatically billed for annual renewal. You will be notified 30 - 60 days in advance of your renewal date. We reserve the right to cancel this service for non-payment of renewal fees. We take your privacy seriously. We will never disclose your private information to any third-party, without your prior permission, except by court order. Shortly after your purchase, you will receive an email notification with your site address and a brief questionnaire about how you would like your site to be setup.
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