Manifesto is a professional-grade content management system (CMS) — an easy way to maintain a dynamic website with virtually no need to learn HTML. From personal blog-and-photo-gallery sites to commercial ecommerce solutions, Manifesto provides you with the tools you need to build the website you desire. It is based on a modular architecture that allows you to select only the features you need, and can be easily expanded to provide new functionality to accommodate almost anything you can imagine. Written in object-oriented PHP, and using a MySQL database to store its information, Manifesto runs on the popular LAMP platform, making it easy to install on many commercial servers.

Manifesto includes a built in, multi-role authentication system for managing user accounts with a variety of access permissions, a media repository for storing and managing all of your uploaded media in virtually any format, and modules for everything from blogs and portfolios to event calendars and magazines. It also employs current technologies, with search engine optimization tools, customizable RSS feeds for any of your content, XHTML 1.1 output, and a fully internationalized user interface. Use of comprehensive CSS2 for layout allows for a variety of user-selectable themes for the look-and-feel of your site, and the built-in CSS Editor allows you to create your own variations.

Beginning with the web-based installer script, all of the content and design of your site can be managed online, using web page forms. Editorial and Administrative areas of the site are protected by password, and allow comprehensive access to everything you need to maintain your site. A few minutes of installation, and you're on your way. More importantly, you need only get your hands as dirty as you want -- Manifesto works as well for the novice as it does for the developer.

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