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News & Happenings GCN Publishing Partners with Fry Communications, Inc. to Provide Web Site Development for City and Regional Publications GCN Announces Third Site Launch of 2009 Experts Predict Mobile to Grow in 2009 GCN Publishing Announces Second Launch of 2009: Elearning! Magazine GCN Annouces First Site Launch of 2009 – GiftwareNews.com >>For more news visit our news archive

content management system

overview:
Our CMS 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 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 anywhere you want — with GCN, 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. In addition to building sites and supporting our customers, we at GCN have developed several Typo3 extensions that extend the functionality of the core system specifically for the needs of magazine publishers.

GCN is the only development firm that creates Typo3 based solutions exclusively for magazine publishers and associations.

Each customer has full access to all portions of the CMS 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.

For more information on Typo3 and how it stacks up to other open source content management systems, click here.

To find out how our team can get you on the road to a profitable Web site, click here.


case study:
Central New York Business Journals recently unveiled a vital new Web presence for its three newspapers, CNYBJ, TGBBJ and TMVBJ, using GCN's expertise and a half-dozen of our tools to serve readers and drive new revenue to the bottom line.

The site build included an e-commerce engine allowing users to purchase subscriptions. A registration system was implemented so that certain areas of the site have subscriber only access.

FEATURES AND BENEFITS • Complete separate of content and design • The ability for editors to add new features like blogs, video, forums and content with no programming required. • WYSIWYG editors for creation and editing, just like other desktop tools • Full categorization and cross-indexing of content. • Output options for RSS, e-newsletters, individualized alerts. • Multi-level access management for every system user • Integrated social media engines. • Scalable scripting language • Support for more than 40 languages • Complete editorial work-flow and asset management capabilities

FAQS What is TYPO3? TYPO3 is an enterprise Content Management Framework that is written in PHP. TYPO3 is currently used by more than 220,000 sites worldwide, and has been translated into 45 languages. There is an active development community of more than 25,000 developers working on Typo3 sites in 60 countries. Are you locked into a long-term contract? No. We build your site and train your editorial and production teams how to update and manage the site. At GCN, we enable you to run and maintain your own site without constantly having to involve developers. You can even host your site on your owner servers if you wish.

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