Campsite, Free Software For a Free Press
Campsite is a free multilingual CMS news websites, an easily localizable user interface was built with the end user in mind and it can be configured to suit different profiles of end users – to each according his or her own technological prowess. Campsite follows the print-newspaper publishing paradigm, so it structures sites by default as Publications > Issues > Sections > Articles. works best for medium-to-large-size online news publications, but it is capable of handling nimbler sites too. Some of its main features are highly customizable user interface, total design freedom for web designers, automatic creation of archives, copy flow, and built-in subscription support.
Some of Campsite main features include :
- User-friendly. Campsite is written specifically for newspapers and magazines, and that means our users are journalists and editors. In addition, we assume that some journalists may have little or no experience with computers and so we've made the interfaces easy to understand and users are only shown those actions which they have the right to use. Tasks are made to use as few clicks as possible, and common tasks are made to be quick and simple. Other systems are not customized to the particular tasks that journalists and editors must perform every day.
- Multi-lingual content. All content in Campsite can be translated. There are no other open-source tools that support this feature. Supporting multi-lingual content is a huge undertaking that cannot be easily added to an existing application because every interface in the application needs to be changed.
- Management features for newspapers: issue publishing, exclusive content for subscribers, multi-media content, content categories, subscriber comments, WYSIWYG editor, article locking (so only one journalist can work on an article at a time), and timed release of articles or issues.
- Subscription management with fine-grain control over what content your subscribers have access to. There is support for corporate accounts using IP-based subscriptions.
- Total design freedom. You can make your site look however you like, Campsite does not have any sort of predefined "block" layout.
- Community or guaranteed support. Campware can guarantee a 24-hour response time and can help you fix problems on your server.
- On-demand features. If you need Campsite to do something that it doesnt do currently, we can add it in for a very reasonable cost in a timely manner.
Campsite is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. Note that Campsite uses Xinha (released under a BSD-style license) as its WYSYWIG editor. More information and download from Campware website.

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