Kule ndaba
Kuphi: Settings → Site & brand → Set up your site
Open this page: admin.<your-site>/setup (replace <your-site> with your site address)
Eight designs
Each design has its own look. Open the live demo of each one before you choose. The demos open in all 53 languages.
- Pollcrest: a busy, Hindi-first election daily with a breaking band, a results band and a table of key dates.
- Stumpwire: a campaign and policy desk with a timed campaign-trail timeline and a four-column policy grid.
- Treatyline: parliament and policy analysis on warm paper, with numbered explainers.
- Countdesk: a dark counting-day room with a results band, live updates and a board of seats to watch.
- Aislewire: a regional and state politics front with state cards, an elections strip and key dates.
- Sourcemark: a fact-check and explainer desk with a five-step rating scale.
- Chamberlight: a political magazine for long reads, with a full-width cover story and photo essays.
- Caucusnote: a quiet, newsletter-first morning briefing with one accent colour.
Party colours are never part of a design. You choose your own brand colours. See Choose and compare templates.
Okukulungele
Izigaba. Elections, Parliament and government, States, Policy, World politics, Fact check, Explainers and Opinion and analysis. You can rename them or leave some out when you choose them.
Story starters. In the editor, under Qala kusuka:
- Political news
- Ukuhlola amaqiniso
- Incazelo
- Ukuhlaziya
- Ukusakaza bukhoma (needs the Live updates add-on)
- Leader or party profile
A fact check and an analysis need their sources filled in before you publish.
Switched on for you. Breaking ticker and flag, corrections, key points, content labels, polls and FAQ blocks.
Your words. The admin says Ukusakaza bukhoma and Big political news.
Steps: first hour
- Open Izilungiselelo, then Setha isayithi lakho.
- Choose your languages.
- Create your sections. Pick Politics and elections, English or the Hindi set. Nothing changes until you apply.
- Pick features. Elections hub, live updates, newsletters and push alerts are offered. Paid ones are only offered, never bought for you.
- Arrange your home page, then set up ads.
- Publish trust and legal pages. Add a corrections policy.
- Write your first story.
Kuhle ukukwazi
- Results are typed in by your team. The Elections hub is an add-on. Your team enters parties, seats and results. Keynate does not bring in live results. Show your source and the time next to every figure. See Elections hub.
- Say "leading" until a result is declared. The AI helpers on this site follow this rule. They never invent quotes, counts or poll numbers. They write drafts only. A person publishes.
- Ukuhlola eqinisweni. The rating scale shows a word and a meaning, not only a colour.
- Corrections. Fix mistakes in public. See Corrections.
- Add-ons for this kind of site. Popular ones are the Elections hub, live updates, push alerts, newsletters, web stories and short videos. Some are included in some plans: see your plan on keynate.com.
Imibuzo
Imibuzo evame ukubuzwa
Does the site show live election results by itself?
No. Your team enters the results. Keynate does not promise live data.
Can I use my party's colours?
You can set your own brand colours. The designs start neutral on purpose.