Automatic Make-up and Publishing Software Complex for Online-editions

For over centuries broad sections of public could access mass media only in limited number of printed versions. But as the popularity of newspapers and magazines increased, technology base of periodical printing editions developed. So, by the end of 20th century Internet became the information medium as well as newspapers and magazines. World Wide Web as the universal source of information and medium of communication now competes with printed media, from the one hand, and offers unlimited opportunities for convenient accommodation for advertising and interaction with readers from the other hand. And as the result, almost all mass media have their sites in Internet, where online-readers can both read latest issues and find the achieve ones. Internet-site gives wide spectrum of advantages within which are: widening readers' circle, rating rise, enhancement of efficiency, image quality and circulation quality of information, questioning and forum opportunity.

But nesting, publication and achieve maintenance is laborious and rather monotonous work. For article creating and posting author should manage to use special programs, know the basics of HTML language. He should also think of formatting and markup the document while copying it from Word, change all unfaithful representation, generated in the process, edit a lot of html-files of previous issues and change all of them when design is changed.

For that very purposes complex of program modules "PVD NEWS ONLINE v4" (http://www.pvdlab.net) was developed. It not only allows avoiding all the problems described above but guarantees wide spread of such possibilities as: useful interface for your readers and undisturbed operation of the content to you. If your Internet-editions is based on this software, work productivity and popularity of the edition becomes much higher and laboriousness and time per one issue become much more lower. Besides, unlike tradition way of make-up, you do not need special knowledge and can manage all the process yourself.

Interface Simplicity. If you are a reporter or an author, you can easily cope with the program and efficiently use it for your work. "PVD NEWS ONLINE v4" interface is intuitively obvious, easy to understand and easy to use. To change your work from boring and exhausting work, the workspace is supplied with such graphic buttons as "edit header", "delete", "edit article", "send to editor's check". And if you are an editor, and you are snowed under with materials, you can use current state indicators, useful views and dynamic menu.

Article Creating and Editing. It is clear, that materials, published on sites of online magazines and newspapers, can be of various character and size. That's why we divide all the information for articles, headers, announcements and notes. While working out any of these types, you can insert pictures from files, change their places, make up and format the text without any knowledge about HTML language. One more useful feature is that you can carry the text by simply coping it - build-in editor automatically recognizes your markup and the article stays the way it was, even in the case, that the text contains such complex elements like tables. Your reporters can place an article on the site being in any place of the world and they do not need any special program.

Mapping Dynamic. As every edition has its style and unique mapping and combination of issues, "PVD NEWS ONLINE v4" allows controlling all the settings for viewing article on your site. For that very purpose you need only to create template once. in our program there are templates of calendar, header, menu, announcement, article, note, templates of achieve viewing, templates of static pages, template of informer for other sites and (sure) template of search and language conversion template. Templates usage allows you to build your content in any design, and updating module provides you control under styles and article mapping.

Polyglot program. One more urgent feature of our program is named polyglot or poly-lingual ability. Publishers, who work with several official languages, have unique possibility to publish the same article in several languages within one site. If you want to use this feature, you need to do the following: while creating new article, author should mark languages he (or she) needs, and 2 windows - for text carrying and information of preview - appear. Readers, in his (or her) turn choose the language ones, when entering the site.

Role Sharing. It's not worth saying that though every author or reporter can work under article, using the program, people, whose access rights defined as user's, have different rights and obligations. That's why "PVD NEWS ONLINE v4" has conditional division of all the users to 3 groups: admin, editor, user. Level of access defines due to user's role in the process of creating the site content. Administrator registers all the users. While registering, administrator set the level of access to program functions for everybody. Besides, administrator is responsible for level of access, styles, divisions and template adjustment.

User and author of articles or announcements, can create and edit all his (or her) works, send them to editor's check. Articles, checked be editor are published on the site by editor, and once, which check ended a failure, are back to the author with editor's comments.

Editors have all rights of user, when creating article, but editor also has additional ways for being in progress of issue creating. Editor can: check articles, look through all articles, published on the site, work with published articles and static information.

Standard functions. Fresh announcements, links with in sections, indexes on archive releases, treelike structure of sections, and searching system are essentials of a good information site. Therefore, using the program product, you not only estimate it personal advantages, but also do not lose an opportunity to give the readers all standard service functions listed.

Static information support. Any site contains not news only, but also static information, that means any page, information of what has not been changing for long time. Our system allows direct working with such pages, you can place links to that pages in a menu and set templates for either all of them or every of them separately.

Integration. Besides advantages of system from users' point of view, whether they are readers of your site or authors of articles, "PVD NEWS ONLINE v4" has one more important advantage. It is integrable and multiplatform. As the system is written in Perl, it can be established on any platform, whether it is Linux, Unix, Windows or any other platform. Cryptographic module will expose protection for employees access. SSI allows placing news modules in any place of page, and internal modules distinguish language type and show you latest news, as well as links to archive releases and search.

Delivery. There are three types of delivery: automatic - by the publication of article, own - the information for your subscribers and articles for the period - you may set the period and subscribers will receive articles included in it. The module of the subscription allows visitors of your site to sign in /sign out or change the subscription. It gives also an opportunity to change the password and choose necessary sections that can be used for making an article.

What do you need to make success? First of all, you need good conditions and means of work for working good. If you publish materials in Internet and have problems with means of work, that do not correspond to level of your edition any more, or you have decided to select the easiest and convenient mode of work on your newspaper (magazine) online, or, eventually, you simply prefer to keep up and are not afraid of innovations, "PVD NEWS ONLINE v4" is the best opportunity to realize your desire. And if you do not have site in Internet you should think over decision of this problem. For it is 21-st century...