Better Homes & Gardens Online November 2007 Highlights

Business Wire, Nov 1, 2007

DES MOINES, Iowa -- BHG.com, the Web companion to Better Homes and Gardens magazine and the Web's premier home and family site, guarantees its millions of readers dazzlingly easy Thanksgiving success this month.

Celebrate All Month

BHG.com will make sure this is your best November ever. You'll see how to make stunning-but-simple harvest wreaths, beautiful centerpieces, and other decorations. You'll find innovative menus for dinner tonight as well as dinner for The Big Day. You'll see smart ideas to stay organized. And just for fun, you can send your friends whimsical Merry Messages, animated e-mails starring you.

BHG.com's 100 Days of Holidays showcases all this and more in special daily e-mails that have you covered all the way through New Year's Day. www.BHG.com/100days

A Holiday for Voyeurs

Want to see how other BHG.com readers are decorating this month? You can check out their treasured traditions and best recipes, too, with BHG.com's new Share My Photos galleries. You can also show your love for the holiday season - and show off your holiday talents - by sharing photos of your own. www.holidays.BHG.com

Thanksgiving Survival Guide

This month, BHG.com features a foolproof guide to Thanksgiving, featuring traditional recipes with fresh twists, decorating ideas, fun craft projects, and more. In addition to the step-by-step guide on the site, BHG.com also offers a free 5-day e-mail newsletter that starts Nov. 15, delivering Thanksgiving inspiration right to your e-mailbox.

Thanksgiving Survival Guide:

http://www.BHG.com/bhg/category.jsp?categoryid=/templatedata/bhg/c ategory/data/sc_1382.xml (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.)

5-Day Thanksgiving Survival E-mail Course:

https://secure.BHG.com/common/profile/quicksignup.jsp?regSource=14 02&ordersrc=rdbhg1481 (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.)

Perfect Roasting Every Time

You've bought the turkey (or ham), but when do you start thawing it? Put it in the oven? At what temp? For how long? Just punch in what you're roasting and when you want to eat, and the BHG.com Roasting Guide takes it from there.

www.BHG.com/roasting

Fall Garden Guide

BHG.com features helpful planting tips, creative ways to add beauty to your yard all season long and how to get your garden ready for winter.

http://www.BHG.com/bhg/category.jsp?categoryid=/templatedata/bhg/c ategory/data/FallGardenGuide.xml (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.)

About BHG.com

Developed by the experts at Better Homes and Gardens, BHG.com is the premier home and family site on the Web, and the interactive companion to Better Homes and Gardens magazine. BHG.com is for people interested in turning home, cooking, and gardening inspiration into action.

BHG.com is focused on decorating, home improvement, crafts, entertaining, cooking, and gardening. It also has extensive information for women and families. In addition to providing useful tools and advice, BHG.com's trusted experts keep visitors up to the minute on the latest developments and trends around home and garden. It has easy-to-use interactive tools, clear visuals, step-by-step instructions and money-saving suggestions. It makes life easier and more enjoyable.

About Meredith Corporation

Meredith (www.meredith.com) is one of the nation's leading media and marketing companies with businesses centering on magazine and book publishing, television broadcasting, integrated marketing, and interactive media. The Meredith Publishing Group features 25 subscription magazines - including Better Homes and Gardens, Ladies' Home Journal, Family Circle, Parents, American Baby, Fitness and More - and publishes more than 200 special interest publications under approximately 80 titles. Meredith owns 13 television stations, including properties in top-25 markets Atlanta, Phoenix and Portland.

Meredith has more than 400 books in print and has established marketing relationships with some of America's leading companies through Meredith Integrated Marketing. Meredith's consumer database, which contains more than 85 million names, is one of the largest domestic databases among media companies and enables magazine and television advertisers to target marketing campaigns precisely. Additionally, Meredith has an extensive Internet presence that includes more than 30 Web sites and broadband channels. Meredith Hispanic Ventures publishes five Spanish-language titles, making Meredith the leading publisher serving Hispanic women in the United States.