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Open access is becoming more popular for the scientific results and with it the scientific results are being shared more commonly in the form of workshop proceedings and conferences. An online repository with an open access workshop proceedings is CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Submitting workshop proceedings at CEUR Workshop Proceedings requires a user to follow a disintegrated workflow. The user requires to comply to workshop proceedings standards at CEUR Workshop Proceedings and use multiple tools and technologies to prepare a zip archive to be submitted at CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR Make tries to solve this problem by partially automating the user workflow. It requires from user to create just two xml format file types that holds metadata of the contents and the metadata of the workshop. In this way the user avoids one step for publishing proceedings and by creating only xml format files the user gets fully stylized and standard compliant ready to publish workshop proceeding. CEUR Make enriches the user experience by partially automating the user workflow but the usability studies suggested major rooms for improvement. The system lacked as it was difficult to learn, was highly dependent on other softwares, was not portable and was tough to use. To solve these major issues CEUR Make web based Graphical Interface was introduced, which is portable, easy to use as it has interactive user interface and it is not dependent on other softwares. Comparative usability study of CEUR Make Graphical User Interface with CEUR Make signified great usability improvement in terms of interface, ease of use, dependability on other systems and portability. The usability study of CEUR Make Graphical User Interface also pointed out areas where the user experience could be further enhanced such as collaborative editing for workshop editors.