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Common website publishing applications such as Dreamweaver, FrontPage and GoLive are good tools to use to create websites and web-pages by technically experienced users. Using these applications offer the user some flexibility in creating the design, look and feel of a web-site and the ability to create and edit content. However, if the website becomes more complicated in design or function, these tools require the ability to write cgi scripts and HTML codes. In all cases, time consuming and complicating issues arise when managing files and the navigational structure of the website. In addition to creating the website, the website owner must obtain and purchase a unique URL, negotiate a contract with an ISP and have the account activated before they can begin the arduous process of publishing their website. Generally, people find it too complicated and difficult to create and publish a website using traditional website publishing applications.
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GVC.SiteMaker is a full solution website publishing application. GVC.SiteMaker is a template driven, website creation and hosting solution that is much more than a simple application creating web-pages. Invented and designed by university faculty, GVC.SiteMaker allows faculty, students and staff the ability to create websites with no HTML or technical experience. Although, GVC.SiteMaker is scalable enough to apply this knowledge towards the design of sophisticated content. Creating and publishing a fully functional website is simple with GVC.SiteMaker; receive a User ID and Password from an Administrator and log onto GVC.SiteMaker using a web browser, then follow simple steps that allow you to choose a unique website style, type in text and upload images for content, create navigational structure, create password protected pages and files, and of course, automatically publish your website to the World-Wide-Web.
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Template driven website publishing tools are helping people to overcome the challenges of creating very simple websites. However, these tools tend to be too rigid and limited in functionality, especially to meet the diverse requirements of academic users wanting very functional and informative websites.
Traditional website publishing solutions tend to be either flexible or easy to use, but never both. In addition, these solutions are not server based, they do not support multiple users, and they fall short in allowing website IT and/or Administration Support Staff to have any centralized control over multiple users or a collection of web-sites under one system.
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In addition, GVC.SiteMaker greatly improves the efficiency and effectiveness IT Support Staff offers end users. While providing autonomous control to end users to create their own websites, GVC.SiteMaker shortens the time IT Support Staff spends helping individual website owners with minor set-up, layout and/or content management issues. Utilizing built in automated features, GVC.SiteMaker empowers IT and Support Staff to exercise greater distributed or centralized administrative control over who has rights to create a website, the styles available for use, what websites are suitable for publishing and setting the hierarchical structure of websites within an organization. GVC.SiteMaker allows IT, System Administrators and Support Staff to provide an enhanced website solution for the organization as a whole.
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