Why Caravel?
 
What do you want in a CMS?
Ease of use, good documentation, templating, a great feature set, scalability--these are all things that you look at when you are trying to find a CMS that fits your needs. We are constantly working to make Caravel more intuitive and easier to learn. As part of our commitment to this we have put a good deal of effort into keeping our documentation up to date and as simple as possible. 

Ease of Use
In an effort to make Caravel easier to use all of our layout tools are drag and drop. Want to increase the width of your leftmost column? Easy, just click and drag. Want to move that html document to a better location? Just click, drag, and drop it off wherever you want it to be. It's just that simple. And best of all, it's done with Ajax so you don't have to wait for your page to reload each time you change something; it's all done behind the scenes.

Designing your look - and sharing it
Caravel also features a robust templating system which allows you to totally control the look and feel of your site. Whether you are interested in creating a standard three column layout or the new big trend in layouts, Caravel makes it possible.

 
Adding function to your design
What will make your site unique and different from others are the features you use and how you use them.  Caravel offers many different features which you can use to make your site more dynamic. Here are just a few of them.

RSS Reader and Feed Managment/Creation tools - Syndication has become one of the most important tools in the webmasters repertoire.

Navigation - There are hundreds of different ways to navigate across a website. Caravel's Navigator application gives you multiple styles of navigation and lets you further customize them using CSS.

Blogging Capability - Using our unique FolderViewer, you can easily set up and manage a blog. You can also create an RSS feed based off this blog.

Formbuilder Tool - Online forms can be very time consuming and tedious to set up on a standard website. Caravel's formbuilder allows someone who is not familiar with HTML at all to set up a form and have its data emailed to wherever you choose. Even better, it has the capability of storing this data directly into a database.

E-Commerce - Caravel's E-Commerce tools are currently in Beta. It supports a simple item database or event sign-up. There are currently plug-ins for both Authorize.net and PayPal.

• Automated maintenance of site navigation
• Build custom navigation with graphical tools.
• Redirect on login

• Edit your site any time, anywhere
• Rapid site prototyping: don't like it? Change it, move it, rename it--with no hassles.
• Multi-platform site editing
• Greater design flexibility than most CMS's