RECENT LAUNCHES GCN to Launch Home Furnishings News Web Site McFadden Publications launched a robust new Web presence for its home furnishings magazine, HFN magazine, deploying many of GCN's differentiating features making it a vital resource for readers and a must-have for advertisers. >>more   Business Journals Relies on GCN to Launch Hot New Men's Retailing Web Site Business Journals recently unveiled a vital new Web presence for its men's retailing magazine, MR magazine, using GCN's expertise and a half-dozen of our tools to serve readers and drive new revenue to the bottom line. “The GCN team was a pleasure to work with. We felt like ours was their only job through virtually the whole process.” —Stu Nifoussi, Executive Vice President, Business Journals Inc.  >>more

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content management system

overview:
Our CMS Gizmo is an enterprise-class content management system that allows your team to seamlessly create and manage volumes of current and archival content in a channel-independent format. This means you can easily create and tag content for use on your Web sites, in RSS feeds, in e-mail newsletters, and in syndication to your publishing partners with one simple, Web-based process.

why choose gcn?
We believe in giving our customers the ability to choose how much control they would like to exercise over their Web operations.

Our CMS Gizmo is built on the industry-leading, open-source, Typo3 framework, which ensures active development of new features while eliminating up-front licensing fees and reducing implementation costs. You’ll never again be held hostage by your Internet developer. You can host the CMS Gizmo anywhere you want — with us, with your current hosting company, or on your own managed servers.

GCN provides initial site design, construction and implementation services, as well as ongoing support, development and maintenance as required by our customers. Each customer has full access to all portions of the CMS Gizmo at all times. You can decide to create or edit templates in-house, or have our seasoned development team do it for you. The choice is yours.

case study:
In less than four weeks, GCN converted two high-profile content sites owned by U.K. Publisher Haymarket LLC from a proprietary content-management engine to our CMS Gizmo. GCN’s team, working closely with Haymarket’s internal Web department, created new page templates to match the functionality of the existing site. The GCN team then converted the online content for those sites from their existing database format into a format that could be used by the CMS Gizmo. The project launched on time, with no disruption to the publisher’s Web operations.

 

FEATURES AND BENEFITS • Template-based content delivery • Powerful, channel-independent content database • WYSIWYG editors for creation and editing • Full categorization and cross-indexing of content. • Output options for RSS, e-newsletter, individualized alerts. • Full image support. • Multi-level security for data entry/access. • Integrated user authentication system. • Integrated personalization engine. • Scalable scripting language • Support for more than 40 languages

FAQS What is TYPO3? TYPO3 is a small to midsize Content Management Framework for enterprise purposes on the web and in intranets written in PHP. TYPO3 runs on more than 220.000 servers worldwide. The application has been translated into 45 languages and is actively being developed in a community of app. 45.000 users in 60 countries. Since 2005 the TYPO3 print magazine "T3N" is published quarterly. Are you locked into a long-term contract? No. Once your templates and training are complete, we enable you to run and maintain your own site. You can even host your site without us.

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