about posting news on the front page

[Razgo]

was just wondering what the go is? I work closely with Spoon, the author/creator of dbpoweramp, and was wondering if it's ok to post any significant news about it? as recently he has just released the worlds first windows iPod mp4 uploader.

[Razgo]

ok i did a bit more reading and submitted the news. we see how it goes.

[Razgo]

oh crap! it turned out horrible! argh no paragraphs.

Don't worry the paragraphs, I can deal with formatting during approval.

[Razgo]

Ok thanks, but looks like the whole article never got printed: http://www.techimo.com/newsapp/index.pl?photo=3834

and it doesn't make any sense now as half of it is missing?

It still makes sense, but I did have to cut the format down, otherwise it would have occupied over 25% of the front-page.

Tell ya' what, if you want to write up a short guide or article about the software, I would be glad to publish it and promote the work via our press releations list for ya'. Can't get a better deal than that.

Robert Richmond
Editor, TechIMO.com

[Razgo]

thank you RobRich for your time.

it was mainly due to the fact i wasn't familiar with posting news here. and i wasn't too sure how it would look when posted either. is their a prefered charactor/word limit when posting news? as i will be mindfull of this next time.

and thank you for your offer to promote the software. yes i will right up a short article about it. would i then get in touch with you via email? or the forum? and if you can indicate to me how many words I should keep below when writing the guide/article.

thank you.

I don't promote the fact since i usually have to edit news posts anyway, but news submissions can actually be done in HTML if need be.

A short article sounds great. Word limit is whatever, could be anyware from 400-600 one page to multiple pages with full graphics and thousands of words.

For comparison's sake, the bulk of our articles generally average 500-1000 words.

Most any text, doc, or HTML format is acceptable. Just toss the article and any required graphics into a ZIP file (less than 2mb please), and forward the submission to editor@techimo.com

I usually have submitted articles formatted and published a couple of days after initial submission. I then send out a press release announcement to our PR list to better promote the work, and in this case, your project.

Robert Richmond

[Razgo]

thank you!