About

The Idea behind Pageflow

Pageflow is an open source software and publishing platform for Multimedia Storytelling, jointly developed with the West German Broadcasting Corporation „WDR“. The aim was to design a responsive tool for digital journalism, that empowers anyone to transform video content, images, audio and text into immersive visual stories and digital reports in full screen.

Pageflow meanwhile allows online journalists and storytellers to apply a growing number of interactive digital storytelling elements, such as 360° videos, hotspots, before/after slider, charts and multiple storylines. The system is built on a modular basis and finds itself in a permanent state of development.

MULTIMEDIA

Simply interweave your text with audio, images, videos & data into compelling web reports. Pageflow provides 13 modules and a bunch of features to create and publish interactive multimedia stories and audio visual content with ease.

RESPONSIVE

Pageflow quickly adapts to any screen size and device. All features enhance a mobile-friendly performance and therefore provide a fluent and congruent user experience across all modern platforms.

TEAMWORK

An integrated user management allows editorial teams to easily work together. Different roles and rights can be assigned for admins and editors to enable a simple management of multi-user accounts.

OPEN SOURCE

Pageflow was launched and released in 2014 as an open source software under MIT license. Anyone can use the source code to setup own instances. We highly appreciate your questions and contributions on GitHub.

Examples

Some exciting stories, told with Pageflow

Pageflow

In Detail

MODULAR

The modular structure of Pageflow allows a continuous adding of new types of pages and features.

Media-Management

Upload pictures, videos and audio files directly with ease. Files are automatically encoded into the correct formats. More about encoding?

WYSIWYG-EDITOR

The Pageflow-editor provides a live preview (WYSIWYG) and is easy to handle, even for users with little technical know-how.

User-Management

Every client has an integrated user administration and can choose the front-end theme.

Accessible

The no-frills design and the use of HTML5 instead of Flash, makes it possible to view the reports on almost all modern devices.

Advantages

The main aim of Pageflow is to merge various multimedia elements. In combination with its full screen format, it gives you a great storytelling experience.

In Practice

HOW CAN I USE PAGEFLOW?

Open Source

The source code of Pageflow is available under an MIT license via GitHub. Anyone can view, download and contribute to it.

GITHUB PROJECT

Hosted-Pageflow

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