• Easy, Automatic Setup — EZnews automatically detects your server settings and creates all necessary files for you. Setup literally takes only 5-10 minutes! When you're done, you immediately have a fully-functional, elegant-looking newsboard ready to use.
• Web-Based Control Panels — Allows easy management of reporters, news items, image groups, and dozens of settings. The Control Panels are fully password-protected.
• Powerful, Template-Based Customization — Makes it easy to integrate your EZnews board with your current site design.
• Built-In Image Uploading & Management — Allows you to provide categorized groups of images for reporters to embed in their news -OR- reporters may upload their own.
• Built-In Searching — EZnews has one of most powerful search engines of any newsboard available, allowing fully customizable searching of both current news entries and archives.
• Built-In Report Previewing — Allows reporters to see precisely what their news entry will look like before they post.
• Easy, Automatic Archiving — EZnews automatically archives old news (by week or month) and allows you to place the archives anywhere on your site. The appearance of the archives are fully customizable via templates. EZnews also features automatic deletion of very old news.
• Full Editing Capabilities — Edit any news entry at any time. Administrators may also grant reporters full moderating privileges.
• "Top Story" and "Top 5" — Top Story (when turned on) automatically highlights the most recent report by displaying it in its full glory atop all other news items. "Top 5" (or Top N) allows you to limit the number of headlines displayed on a page.
• Powerful Report Navigation — Links to next report, previous report, next 5, and previous 5 for easy navigation.
• Automatic Conversions — URLs and e-mail addresses in news items are automatically converted to hyperlinks and mailto: links.
• Unlimited Member Accounts — All accounts are password-protected and easily administrable. Each member may have his or her own signature.
• Easy Embedding Via SSI — Inserting just one line of code into your HTML allows you to embed your news headlines into a webpage. In fact, you can place the headlines onto as many pages as you wish. In your setup, for example, you might place the top 5 headlines on your homepage, followed by a link to the full list of headlines. EZnews will update all headline lists automatically.
• ...and much more! Check out the sample EZnews board below to learn what else EZnews has to offer.

• A web account with access to Perl 5 or higher
• An FTP client, such as SmartFTP
• SSI enabled on your web server

The links below allow you to explore a sample configuration of EZnews. As this newsboard is monitored regularly, all posted items are fully subject to censorship by the EZnews team.

Control Panels

>> Go to the sample Control Panels
Login using username demo and password demo. You are free to explore all sections of the administrative panel. Additionally, you may add other members to the newsboard (the "tourist" ranking is special to this configuration and allows this privilege; the "moderator" ranking is disabled in this configuration). You are not permitted to edit news postings or customize settings in this configuration.

>> Post to the sample EZnews board
To post news items: Use the Add Members function of the sample Control Panels to add yourself as a reporter or tourist. Then, head over to the page above and post with the username and password you chose.

>> View the sample EZnews board
Read what other viewers have posted and navigate through the front-end of this sample configuration.