Contao

Software Description

Contao provides advanced editing features like copying or moving records via clipboard, editing multiple records at once or restoring prior versions. Contao 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 have quickly made.

Key features:

- Try Contao Open Source CMS online before you download it and save yourself the time it takes to install it on your local computer or server. It is fast and 100% hassle-free! No registration required.

- Choose from hundreds of additional modules in the Contao Extension Repository that add even more functionality to Contao. Extensions can be installed at the push of a button in the back end.

- Meet the people of the core team, who dedicate a lot of their time to developing Contao, promoting the project, writing documentation, recording screencasts and looking after the community.

- The online manual describes how to install and use Contao Open Source CMS. The documentation section also includes the developer's guide that explains how to create custom extensions.

- Contao themes are additional designs for your website. All themes are fully CSS-based and can optionally be installed as front end templates, including a pre-configured example website.

- Do you need help using Contao or are you looking for someone to develop a custom extension? Find a Contao partner agency in your area and get personal Contao support, hosting or training.

Contao provides advanced editing features like copying or moving records via clipboard, editing multiple records at once or restoring prior versions. Editors can format texts with the built-in rich text editor TinyMCE, which also includes a multilingual spellchecker.

Contao has a powerful permission system that allows you to control the access to each and every form field in the back end. Access rights can be granted on user or on group level and will be aggregated if a user is assigned to more than one group.

Contao comes with a full-text search engine that supports phrase searching, wildcard searching and AND/OR searching. The search index is built automatically and optionally even includes protected pages. The results are cached and can be split into multiple pages.

Contao supports file uploads via FTP in addition to the built-in file manager. It automatically generates image thumbnails and file previews and allows you to edit uploaded files with the source editor. Files and folders can by copied, moved, edited, renamed and deleted.

The Contao calendar module is part of the core distribution. It supports multiple calendars, all-day events, open-end events, multi-day events, repeated events and easy syndication via RSS or Atom feeds. It includes multiple views like calendar, mini-calendar or event list.

The Contao Extension Repository contains hundreds of additional modules that add even more functionality to the CMS. You can browse the Extension Repository and install, update or remove modules directly in the back end with only a few mouse clicks.

Installing updates can be time consuming, even you are running only a small number of Contao websites. The Contao Live Update Service is a commercial add-on which allows you to update your installation with only a few clicks in the back end.

Contao supports different page types (e.g. regular or redirect pages) and multiple websites in one tree. You have full control over whether a page is hidden, password protected, cached or indexed for searching and you can publish them either manually or timed.

With the Contao form generator you can generate any kind of web form, which will be validated automatically and either sent via e-mail or stored in the database. Uploaded files will be sent as attachment and can optionally be stored in a folder on the server.

Contao comes with a cross-browser CSS framework that supports static and liquid layouts and automatically creates layout sections and columns from the page layouts you define. Existing style sheets can easily be imported and maintained in the Contao back end.

The Contao news/blog module is part of the core distribution. It supports multiple news archives and categories, featured news, user comments and easy syndication via RSS or Atom feeds. Each news item can have an image attached and multiple enclosures.

The Contao newsletter module is part of the core distribution. It supports subscription via double-opt in, HTML and plain text formats, importing recipients from a CSV file and listing sent newsletters on the website. Newsletters sent to members can be personalized.

Contao does not treat accessibility as just an additional feature and generates accessible XHTML strict output that meets the W3C/WAI requirements in the front end and the back end. The system degrades gracefully if JavaScript is not available or not enabled.

Ajax and PHP 5 are modern Web 2.0 technologies which you can find in a lot of contemporary applications. Contao has a solid codebase that is built on the new object-oriented programming features of PHP 5.2 and the MooTools JavaScript framework.

Soft-Go is not responsible for the content of Contao publisher's description. We encourage you to determine whether this product or your intended use is legal. We do not encourage or condone the use of any software in violation of applicable laws.

Any form of support or technical problems regarding Contao must be addressed to its developer/publisher. Please be aware that we do NOT provide Contao cracks, serial numbers, registration codes or any forms of pirated software downloads.

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Download Note

Contao is periodically updated by our editors team but sometimes you may find out that software informations are outdated, please note that the publisher of Contao can update the software without notifying us. Current version of Contao is 2.10.4.

Note: Soft-Go doesn't provide any form of technical support regarding Contao, however, you may find answer to your problem by reading user reviews or directly contacting Leo Feyer which's the publisher/developer of this software.

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