GNWeb Features

Two way content workflows

GNWeb supports Web-to-Print workflows as well as Print-to-Web. Content acquired or created on the web, through GNPortal - content ingestion engine - or GNWeb’s web-based content creation and editing tools, is completely accessible to print because the content becomes stored in the GN3/GN4 content management database.

Multiple modules

Among the many, GNWeb built-in modules are Forums, Blogs, Image Galleries, On-line forms, Polling, Reader contribution support and Geomapping.

Powerful editing

GNWeb’s browser-based administration is comprised of Content Manager which is the GNWeb-specific interface for content editing and Site Commander which provides both an editing, pagepreview, live web view, unstructured and structured content editing.

GNWeb provides complete website management with such features as versioning, content-locking and web analytics.

When matched with GNPortal, content can be acquired, validated, processed, and added to the production workflow stream automatically.

In use, GNWeb together with GN3/GN4’s article-based content management means that a website is one more content distribution channel, like the printed edition of the newspaper - only instantly. 

Here’s how it works:

GN3/GN4’s article-based content organisation allows the publisher to define the elements that comprise an article as part of system configuration. For example, a publisher may define multiple headlines and assign each headline to a title or website (or multiple titles and websites).

Workflows proceed the same, independently of where the content will be published. When it is time to publish, the correct story elements are sent to the channel, whether electronic, such as the web or a mobile device, or a traditional printed channel.

The GN3/GN4 workflow is completely media neutral.

When an article is ready to be published on a website, a suitably authorised user clicks once and the article is instantly published on the website in the proper section with all the proper story elements.

Content collected through the website or developed using GNWeb’s web-specific editing tools becomes part of the GN3/GN4 content management database where it may be published through any channel.