Contao

Contao (formerly TYPOlight) is a powerful web content management system that specializes in accessibility (back end and front end) and uses XHTML and CSS to generate W3C/WAI compliant pages.

The software major difference to other CMS is that it is 100% accessible (frontend and backend) and strictly supports W3C standards. It also includes a powerful CSS engine to format contents.

Its key features include a live update feature, multi- language support, automatic CSS framework generation, a file manager, a search engine and form generator, versioning and undo, and Web 2.0 support.

Contao 2.10.4

Price Free to download Size 5.7MB License GNU LGPL Developer Leo Feyer Website www.contao.org System Requirements MySQL 4.1 or higher PHP 5.1.0 or higher PHP mbstring enabled PHP GDlib enabled Support Sites: Screencasts, User Guide, FAQ, Forums, Developer's Guide, Development, SourceForge Project Page Selected Reviews:

Features include:

• Intuitive user interface
• Accessible XHTML strict output
• Meets W3C/WAI requirements
• Uses Ajax technology
• Web 2.0 support (mootools-based)
• Live update service
• Accessible administration area
• Multiple back end languages and themes
• Generates search engine friendly URLs
• Multi-language support
• Powerful permission system
• Versioning and undo management
• Advanced search and sorting options
• Front end output 100% template based
• Automatic e-mail encryption (spam protection)
• Supports SMTP in addition to PHP's mail function
• Supports multiple websites in one tree
• Supports GZip compression

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Last Updated Monday, February 06 2012 @ 09:15 AM EST