What’s sNews? Well, very likely you will not know what this is since it is currently not that popular. But I believe that it will soon change. It is a lean but powerful content management script. You know, sort of like a blog script for example the super well-known Wordpress. It sells itself as a news management system but whatever it claims itself to be, all I know is that it is a very easy to use script. Just like Wordpress, you can configure your blog with their web-based interface. Since the script is all done in one file (plus the database to store the content), everything can be configure easily without the need to figure out which of the thousands of files to edit.

Why is it good? The most important, it is search engine friendly. Unlike Wordpress (which ironically isn’t that SE Friendly) or other blogging system, you can setup your main page of your blog as a little preview which links to your actual blog post. The problem with Wordpress is duplicate content/supplemental pages (the one of the main page and archive page and the actual blog post). You won’t have this problem with sNews as all the actual blog content is on the blog post itself. The script also creates beautiful static looking URLs for the blog post. sNews can also automatically create a sitemap for your site. I believe these features make sNews a good competitor to Wordpress.

They have a number of free templates (or themes/skins) available for their users. And if you are looking for a somewhat more professional template, you can purchase a commercial template as well. Unless you are some kind of genius, nearly everyone needs some sort of help or support at one time or another, their forum is open 24 hours and you can post questions about the scripts and wait for their developers or other users to respond. So if you are looking for a fast loading blog (or news management) script which you can easily modify, then sNews would be a great choice for you to consider.