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Contao Open Source CMS 2.9.1

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Category: CMS / Portals

Stable Release: 2.9.1

Started In: 2006

Updated: August 9 2010 05:40 am

Native Language: English

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License: GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 3.0 (LGPLv3)

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Contao Open Source CMS Links

Website: www.contao.org

Download: www.contao.org/download.html

Documentation: www.contao.org/documentation.html

Forum: www.contao-community.org

Wiki: dev.contao.org

Contao Open Source CMS Demo

This demo is available offsite at: demo.contao.org/contao/

Contao Open Source CMS Description

Contao Open Source CMS (fka TYPOlight) is an open source content management system for people who want a professional internet presence that is easy to maintain. The state-of-the-art structure of the system offers a high security standard and allows you to develop search engine friendly websites that are also accessible for people with disabilities. Furthermore, the system can be expanded flexibly and inexpensively. Easy management of user rights, the Live Update Service, the modern CSS framework and many already integrated modules (news, calendar, forms, etc.) have quickly made Contao one of the most popular open source content management systems on the market.

Contao Open Source CMS

is technically up to date,
generates Standards-compliant (X)HTML code,
is suitable to create accessible websites,
can be installed on shared hosting servers,
supports collaboration with different permissions,
requires less resources than comparable CMS and
can easily be customized or extended.

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Posted By: Armin on August 25 2010 10:43 am

Contao is just a great piece of software. Once you get used to the site structure, it is very easy to use to tweak to enhance.

I like it.

Posted By: Jim on August 6 2010 08:23 am

TYPOlight/Contao is great.

I used it to create a small site for a antique shop. The owner can update and add photos, etc easily. Template creation was easy, even for a beginner like me.

Posted By: Pece on December 28 2009 02:29 pm

We are using Typolight for more than a year now, and from experience I can say that Typolight is one of the best CMS software out there.

Sure there are some cons:
Hard to manage for clients,
Complex to add pages,
Can't edit from the front website,
Hard to update after you've hacked the core! :D

Pros:
Easy for developers
ABSOLUTELY THE BEST BACKEND (generic, build from configuration)
Easy to create modules
100% template output
No design out of the box
The best installation ever seen in a CMS!
A lot out of the box modules (Articles, News, Form Builder, Newsletter, Banners, Calendar/Events, FAQ, Tasks...)
Many community modules (but still less than Drupal for example)

If you are developer I recommend that you try Typolight!

Posted By: hope on November 1 2009 08:27 pm

i love typolight
it has many advanced features
security and acl is better than joomla
but it need more templates and module desigeners

Posted By: Arno on October 3 2009 02:39 pm

The best OS CMS out there i've tried. Very straight forward and transparent.

Only 4 minor issues:
- Not enough extra features (modules) yet
- Can become a little slow on the admin site with expanding site structures (filled with articles).
- Could be a little more friendly for the client in usage.
- Manual updating can be a pain if you've rewritten some module templates.

I think some shortcuts would be a big advantage. Clicking page, then article, then content element isn't the fastest way to go in maintenance.

But, it's really easy for the developer, even for designers!

Posted By: Peter on September 30 2009 07:08 am

I promise the next fork will be far better than this one:
- community driven
- no more copyright notice
- more open minded licence (perhaps new BSD)
and much more..

soon delivered at your door, be prepared!

Posted By: Janie on August 16 2009 06:32 am

I installed it and thinking of uninstalling it. Yes it is very organized but I mainly wanted to use script, css, html also on my site. Yes it does provide some of it tho I had a very hard time trying to figure out how to put my google adsense ads. Honestly not for me.

Posted By: Markus on August 10 2009 06:53 am

(+) easy to use for web authors
(+) easy to set up for admins
(+) easy template-system (templates outsourced into files!! great for subversion!!)
(+) includes most frequently needed features
(+) high performance
(+) active community and books available
(+) extensions are easy to install

(-) only 99% template based
(-) included standard templates have much overhead
(-) no support for creation of individual content elements
(-) CSS framework builder is unintuitive to use

Posted By: on July 30 2009 06:41 am

I agree that although this one is relatively designer/developer friendly, more effort should be made to make it easier for the editor at the client's side.

Posted By: bwinans on May 28 2009 06:43 pm

Nasty code? Probably one of most well-designed pieces of code I have seen in a long time. We moved all our client sites from Joomla/Drupal over to TypoLight and are never looking back. Easy setup, simple templating, great developer community, one-click delivery of extensions & updates (with a LiveUpdate ID), very designer and developer friendly... Cut our time to develop sites in half, and with more extensions coming every day, I see nothing but good things in store.

Posted By: Rud on May 20 2009 01:15 am

Hope someday, someone will fork it, because it's a well designed CMS (even thought all the great idea inside it belongs to TYPO3) but with some nasty code

Posted By: Ros on April 14 2009 10:56 pm

Being a Drupal developer, I'm impressed with TYPOlight. It's a straight forward CMS. Template creation is easy.

Posted By: BigJ on March 29 2009 04:50 pm

Still not easy enough. A client would still need an at least somewhat trained employee to administer this CMS.

Posted By: Guy on March 6 2009 06:47 am

Awesome! Just so Awesome! Thats it! Im lovin it

Posted By: Fenella on February 24 2009 10:24 am

After much searching for an easy and user-friendly cms that my clients would be be able to use with little training, typolight seemed like the perfect option, especially after trying out the demo. However, installing the cms is impossible. I tried it on my local host first, then with my web host - still the same problem. I've searched through the documentation, forum, faq's. Although somebody had the same problem in one of the forums, no real solution was posted. Looks like its back to Joomla!!

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