Features

General

Easy to install. Seriously, it's like 10 minutes. And if you don't feel comfortable installing it, we'll do it for you for free.
Lets trusted users maintain content on a website, no HTML required.
The administration/publishing interface is web browser-based, so it can be accessed from anywhere.
The site design can be completely customized. Build your templates from scratch or modify one of the three default templates that come with Article Manager. The templates are written in HTML so modifying them is very straight forward.
The administration interface is completely customizable too. Edit all the admin templates to rebrand the look and feel of Article Manager for your clients, or translate it into another language. You've got complete control.
Archiving feature. Gather your older articles into archives to improve performance.
Format content with no HTML skills using the WYSIWYG editor (requires IE 5.5+ on Windows).

Publish Articles

Publish articles without any HTML/technical knowledge.
The system auto-dates new articles, or you can change the date manually.
Articles can be set as:
Visible: published to the website immediately when saved.
Pending: saved to the system, but not published until an editor approves it.
Hidden: disable an article so it's not visible to the public (use this when you want to pull an article to revise it).
You can publish different kinds of articles:
Full Article: summary on category page and then a link to a full article on its own page.
Summary only: just a summary on the category page.
Internet URL: summary and then a link to an outside website.
Uploaded file: summary and then a link to a document (like a PDF, spreadsheet, or Word Document).
Write articles in plain text, HTML...
... or use our WYSIWYG editor to create articles with word processor-like formatting.
Change the font type, colour and size, bold, italics or underline.
Justify text right, left or centre.
Create bulleted or numbered lists.
Indent or unindent paragraphs.
Insert horizontal lines, hyperlinks, and images
*UPDATED! - New cross-browser WYSIWYG editor lets you format content with no HTML skills.
Supports both Windows & Mac OS X browsers:
Firefox 1.0+, Mozilla 1.7+, and Netscape 7.1+
Internet Explorer 5.5+ (Windows only)
Specify a unique filename for each article.
Custom publish and upload folders - specified at the category level.
Preview the article before publishing it to the website.
Upload up to 25 images to embed within the article.

Category Management

Organize your categories into Subcategories.
Accomodate any depth of subcategories.
Choose your navigation style from 5 different subcategory formats, and create a unique look by tailoring the HTML templates.
Publish your articles across entire category branches or restrict them to specified categories.
Sort the categories into any order you like.
Hide categories to remove them temporarily from your website. Great for making revisions to the site.
Search for categories in the administration system to access them quickly.
Customize the number of articles and headlines displayed for each category.
Create customized filenames for categories to make more readable URLs (/news.html instead of cat_index_2.html).
Associate different images with the category.
Use different templates for each category to further customize the look of your website.

Search Engine

Quickly search any content published with Article Manager.
Search for articles in all categories or only specific categories.
Advanced search allows search by date range and categories.

Webfeed Generator

Let other websites incorporate your content to extend your reach.
Syndicating webmasters add the code once to their website and it will stay current. Whenever your website is updated, all the syndicate sites are updated at the same time.
Syndicates can choose to display all your content or only a single category.
Customize the font, size, colour to match the syndicate's website design.
The system produces the code that syndicates embed into their page to create the Webfeed. This only needs to be done once.

User Administration

Manage users and give them different access levels:
Admin: complete control over the system.
Editor: able to approve other people's articles.
Trusted writer: able to add articles to the website without approval from an editor.
Writer: articles are tagged as "pending" until approved by an editor.
Disabled: unable to use any part of the system.
Constrain writers so they can only add articles to certain categories.
Give each writer their own username/password so they can log into the system.
Email notification system improves your workflow. Any user can be informed when articles are written, published, changed, or removed.

General Options

Customize administration title bar name.
Remove internal warnings and confirmations for faster navigation.
Change defaults of the system for autoformatting.
Add new article publishing fields (up to 20 spare fields).
Set restrictions on content that can be uploaded by users (eg: document types, max image sizes, etc).
Set up how you want articles to sort (ie, by date, or some custom field).
Customize published locations for documents and images.
Customize the login images, title bar, footer bar, meta tags
Create/delete archives and transfer articles back and forth.