Although we like to believe that we maintain a certain level of control over our websites, we do however, have advertising not controlled by us on our websites.
If you see ads that you feel shouldn’t be on our websites because of inappropriate content or for some other reason, please email our webmaster with a brief description of the text within the ad and the URL mentioned inside it as well. We will be more than happy to consider filtering the ad out.
Your Ad Your Way is an online classified ad builder available to our classified advertising customers. Your Ad Your Way gives people a more convenient method to order and create their classified ads. Using Your Ad Your Way, readers can create and order their automotive, merchandise and garage sale ads 24/7.
If you would like to build your ad right now, just click here.
As stated in rules and regulations, most free email account services are prohibited and/or limited for registration to our site’s forum.
Please use a free POP e-mail account like gmail.com or a paid email service to ensure you are able to register for an account.
This security feature is meant to prevent spammers and spam programs/bots from signing up for accounts and preventing others from enjoying their time in discussion with others.
Not all email addresses will be affected by this, however those that are, we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
The basic rules for discussions on our forums are simple:
1. Keep it clean
2. Keep it legal
3. Be respectful of each other.
POLICIES:
1. We encourage the free and open exchange of ideas in a climate of mutual respect. Any action by a participant that infringes on another participant’s right to use and enjoy this bulletin boards is prohibited. You agree not to harass other participants or knowingly display any false, defamatory, abusive, obscene, threatening, racially offensive, sexually explicit or illegal material on the service.
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4. You may not upload any messages, data, images or programs that violate the property rights of others, including unauthorized copyrighted text, images or programs, trade secrets or other confidential proprietary information, and trademarks or service marks used in an infringing fashion.
5. You may not publish any information, software or other content that contains advertising or any solicitation of other members to use goods or services. Any charity requests must reside in the Charities forum. The board administration does not review the status of any charity groups requesting assistance.
6. You may not use the facilities and capabilities of of this site to conduct any activity or solicit the performance of any illegal activity or other online activity that infringes on the rights of any other person or organization or business.
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8. Access to this site’s registration through most freely available e-mail accounts is limited or prohibited. Users should register using a POP e-mail account to ensure access to the site. We reserve the right to delete any thread or post. We will not moderate or edit posts.
The Business Card Index is a print feature that we place on our website for added value to our advertisers. It is a duplicate of the print edition hosted online. The Business Card Index is posted online Monthly in our Web Extras section located on the homepage of The Daily Star’s website.
To view the Business Card Index online, you will need to have an Adobe PDF reader. Adobe PDF readers usually come standard with most PC’s. If you need to download your free Adobe PDF reader, please visit the Websites category of this Help blog.
Another way to access Business Card Index on the website is by clicking on the ‘Business Card Index’ link at the bottom of our website under the site map.
Our legal notices do not go onto our websites. There are a couple options to view legal notices. The first option is to purchase the newspaper for today’s legal notices. The second option is to view the legal notices in our library here at The Daily Star. If you wish to view the legal notices in our library, please call 607-432-1000 and ask to speak to our librarian. You may also email her at librarian@thedailystar.com.
The Employment Opportunities are a print feature that we place on our website for added value to our advertisers. It is a duplicate of the print edition hosted online. The Employment Opportunities is posted online every Monday morning in our Web Extras section located on the homepage of The Daily Star’s website.
To view the Employment Opportunities online, you will need to have an Adobe PDF reader. Adobe PDF readers usually come standard with most PC’s. If you need to download your free Adobe PDF reader, please visit the Websites category of this Help blog.
Another way to access Employment Opportunities on the website is by clicking on the ‘Employment Opportunities’ link at the bottom of our website under the site map.
We have two types of search engines, the first is our primary search engine located throughout The Daily Star and Cooperstown Crier websites. The second search engine available is located under ‘Archive’ on the navigation bar of both websites. The second is a site specific Google Search engine that searches both our new and old websites for both The Daily Star and the Cooperstown Crier.
Searching by keyword is the primary way of using these search engines. The more specific you are, the better your results will be when using the search engines.
An example of a specific search would be entering the full headline in the search engine. The result will be stories with that headline or something similar. Including quote around what you are searching for will make the search engine search for that exact phrase, not the individual components of that phrase.
An example of a non-specific search would be entering a couple words like “cats” or “dogs”. Searching this way will result in long list of stories that had “cats” or “dogs” somewhere throughout the story.
If you have any other questions on how to use our search engines on our website, please contact The Daily Star webmaster at 607-432-1000 ext. 239 or by emailing him at webmaster@thedailystar.com.
Our websites have many advertising opportunities for readers and businesses alike. We have traditional online advertising positions as well as feature sponsorships. Rates are configured by a monthly rate or on a contract rate. If you are interested in learning more about online advertising opportunities with The Daily Star, please contact our advertising department or our webmaster at 607-432-1000.
If you are still seeing the old website design, there is only one reason for it…You are probably looking at a story, photo or video from before our website redesign in September of 2007.
To make it easy for both our online readers and our staff, we moved our old website to old.thedailystar.com. On this subdomain, all of our stories from August 2007 and before will be stored here in the same form as when they were first published.
All stories starting September 2007 will be formatted under our new website design.