Features and Benefits

CityDesk runs on your Windows desktop, using any web server.
Unlike other content management systems which need to be installed on a web server, CityDesk is just a Windows program that generates a site and transfers it to any web server automatically, using FTP or file copy. Our Windows-based user interface is much faster and easier to use than web browser interfaces -- writers love it!

Hierarchical FoldersHierarchical Folders let you keep your site organized.
If you rename or move something, links are automatically updated.

Templates make it easy to create lots of articles with the same formatting.
TemplatesYou don't need to be a programmer and you don't even need to know HTML. Put in special tags like {$.headline$} for the headline. Now whether you're creating one news story or 1000, they all get exactly the same formatting with no additional work. Change the template and every article that uses it gets the changes.

Automatically generate tables of contents.
Whenever you add a new article, it gets added to the appropriate table of contents, in the appropriate order - automatically! Create tables of contents based on folders, dates, or keywords. You can have as many sections as you like, with their own contents, limited only by your imagination.
 
Anyone who can use a word processor can update the site.
The built-in word processor is WYSIWYG ("What You See Is What You Get") and includes a spell checker, word counter, find and replace, and formatting commands. Since the template is defined once, writers can't accidentally mess up the formatting of the site. And with one click, CityDesk figures out exactly what's changed, which files need to be regenerated, and uploads any changed files to a web server.
 
MultilingualMaintain a site in multiple languages -- painlessly.
CityDesk lets translators search for articles which haven't been translated and edit them in a split-screen environment.

Powerful Content Management
You can create multiple editions of your site for different audiences. Each edition can share as much or as little of the content as you need. You can even create editions that use a different set of templates, for example, a printer-friendly version of your site. Imagine issuing one command to republish your entire site in three languages, with four regional editions, with HTML, XML, and printer-friendly versions of each page, served off of a bunch of servers scattered around the world. You can even embargo stories so they won't appear until a certain date.

Read more: CityDesk In Depth

There are three editions of CityDesk (what's the difference?)

Starter Edition
Free Download!
Professional Edition
US $299 per user
Contributor Edition
Starts at $297 for three users

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