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GMTV, one of the most popular breakfast shows in the world launched their re-designed website on Monday 7 March.

The original gm.tv site that had been developed by GOSS has undergone a massive re-design to keep a fresh look of the site, incorporate a plethora of new content and functionality, and make it faster, clearer and simpler for their end-users to access relevant information.

GOSS worked closely with GMTV to design and develop the new site, so that it draws a wider audience by ensuring that information is up-to-date, informative, engaging and personalised.  The features and functionality of the site has also been expanded to fit the needs and requirements of GMTV's current and potential audiences, as well as bring the site's content inline with that of the show.

New features and functionality created by GOSS for the new site include:

• The creation templates to provide both Free of charge and Pay per entry competitions.
• Development of new BT 'Click & Buy' billing interface, with full transactional auditing and complete fault tolerance.
• Log-in and registration area for regular entrants to enter their details for faster entry to future competitions – contestants were previously required to enter their details each time they entered a competition. The log-in and registration also authenticates entrants to the 'Premier' competitions to ensure that they are over 18.
• Trouble-shooting facility, providing users with quick access to FAQ's related to the article they are looking at. If there is no answer to their question, they have the option to submit a new question for GMTV to answer.

"We have worked very closely with GOSS throughout the re-development of the site", said Cliff Smyth, Technical Services Manager, GMTV. "The flexibility and scalability of GOSS' Content Management System has enabled us to adapt our online presence to cope with the changing requirements of our audience and advertisers as our site continues to grow."

gm.tv is a highly interactive site. Holding daily competitions and giveaways, it attracts high volumes of traffic (five million hits) from almost 500,000 unique users each month. To cater for all the requests of their end-users, the GMTV website is a multi-tier distributed application, running on several servers to optimise the website's performance.

"This has been a fantastic project to manage, the collaboration between developers from GOSS and GMTV has been pivotal in producing a website and supporting web services in record-time.  One luxury we have at GOSS is a diverse set of specialist skills to support new developments such as GMTV's billing interface for micro-payments." John Wilson, Senior Developer, GOSS.

Check out GMTV's new site at www.gm.tv