Easily add pages, pictures, thumbnails and blog items to your website. No need to know HTML, FTP. So effortless everybody is doing it.

Ask some of the people who have been with us for nearly 3½ years how simple it is. Many of the underlying features just work quietly in the background making your site far more professional and powerful than many large sites on the net. Our rich feature set is based upon years of weblogging experience and designed to allow non-technical people to publish content to their intranet, corporate, department, or individual website.

Manila is as simple or as deep as you want it to be. Day one, you'll be posting blog items in seconds of starting your site. Over time your site can grow into a sophisticated, high-traffic community with power tools that have been designed and used with you in mind.

Manila is for beginning users that want to have a web page, but don't want to learn too many details. It's also for advanced web users that don't want to worry about all the details, even if they are capable of doing so. It lowers the threshold of pain for running a frequently updated site to zero decreasing the chances of it becoming deadwood like so many other sites out there.

No software to download

Update and control your site from any web enabled computer, even from your mobile phone. Dynamically means you see exactly what you post straight away.

You'll appreciate being able to update your site from any country, from any office, just log in and you're away.

You'll also be able to let other workers, friends or family edit or add or contribute to your site, even allowing (or not) others to comment on your blog items. Your site can become the hub of your own digital community, with you in complete or shared control. Some people even allow complete strangers to post to their blog, others do it in complete privacy, only allowing themselves or invited members to view the pages.

No HTML? Is that good or bad?

It's good, because you can still write HTML in your posts, or even use a WYSIWYG editor (what you see is what you get) in the browser. This allows you to add tables, bold text, colours and so on, and allows you to edit that HTML in raw form. See? I told you we were flexible.

And to add links or images to your posts use shortcuts, which will save you plenty of time and worry. Simply surround a shortcut with "quotes" and it will be replaced with a link, picture or thumbnail.

Your templates are also editable, if you know some HTML. If you're hot with HTML and web design you can even create a completely different look, or theme. Don't worry if you're not, there's plenty of existing themes available.

Create, review and edit again and again

As owner you can do this anywhere, to anybody's postings, while only those who post a message, page, picture or blog item can edit their own.

Total ownership means you posted it, you can edit it. No more wading through complex HTML just to correct spelling, only the text you post is shown to you for editing. Like we say, it's as easy as it should be, which is why I'm still using it after four years and why hundreds of thousands of other are too.

Fully loaded features make your jaw drop

There are so many features you'll have fun switching them on and off and discovering new ones.

Most importantly IMHO each post is added to your RSS feed, you don't have to even know what that is, but you'll learn to love your own inbuilt aggregator. Now, you'll be able to read hundreds of weblogs and other news feeds hyper efficiently. Subscribing to another blog's feed is as easy as clicking on a link.

We've been at this for years, so there's very little in the way of features that you'll not find. But remember, a lot more work went into making these features brain dead simple, yet powerful, ever so powerful.

Archives are stable for search engine crawlers and deep linkers will appreciate the permalink URLs meaning these sites will last you a lifetime.

Highly flexible - completely customisable

Want your own URL? Need to change all instances of a name in your entire site? Need to write in Danish, Dutch, German, French or Italian? Change your time zone? Add a blogroll or export your RSS subscriptions?

By changing the settings you can completely change the look or function of your Manila site. You can add CSS and JavaScript behaviour. Come up with any design you like, and odds are you can pull it off.

Not interested in a news site, but you want to build a site for one specific purpose, like a product manual? You can do that too. Just disable the calendar and discussion group in the configuration pages.

Loads of documentation and help files

There's a Manila newbies mailing list as well as a downloadable pdf (3.5megs) which has all the how tos you need. You can use this as a training manual.

There's also a load of macros that you can add to your posts or templates which will give you fantastic funtionality. And of course we can help you with them.

Yours to download and own. No lock-in

Oooo! I'd hate that! To be stuck with a technology or provider. Which is why you can download your site and move away if we don't live up to your expectations.

Or, maybe export your site to import into something else. Exporting your back posts to RSS is a doddle and quite useful for other things.

No complicated web hosting

Everything is ready for you to go. We host your site, provide you with easy and very useful daily stats, like referers so you can see who's sending traffic to your site and traffic, so you can see on an hourly basis how many hit you're getting, and even compare your site to others here.

Everything is thought of and taken care of.