TYPOlight webCMS – Accessible Web Content Management System

A growing number of countries around the world have introduced legislation which either directly addresses the need for websites to be accessible to people with disabilities, or which addresses the more general requirement for people with disabilities not to be discriminated against. TYPOlight does not treat accessibility as just an additional feature and is thoroughly accessible.

If you run multiple TYPOlight websites, installing updates can be very time consuming, even if they are small. You have to manually connect to each website via FTP, synchronize the files and update the database with the TYPOlight install tool. The live update service allows you to update your installation with only a few clicks in the back end, so you do not have to waste your time on file uploads.

PHP 5 and Ajax are modern “Web 2.0” technologies that you can find in a lot of contemporary applications. TYPOlight has a solid codebase built on the new object-oriented programming features of PHP 5 and can therefore be considered a future-proof software. To ensure back end accessibility, every Ajax feature includes a graceful fallback in case JavaScript is disabled.

Full feature list

• 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
• Print articles as PDF

Cross-browser CSS framework

• Creates columns automatically
• Existing CSS files can be imported
• Supports custom layout sections
• Supports static and liquid layouts
• Includes important IE bug fixes

Editing features

• Clipboard feature
• Edit multiple records
• Built-in rich text editor (TinyMCE)
• Different content elements and modules
• Multilingual spellchecker
• Insert tags (similar to server side includes)
• Manual or timed publication

Page features

• Different page types
• Multiple websites in one tree
• Manual or timed publication
• Hidden pages
• Password protect pages

News/Blog features

• Blog functionality
• Multiple news archives
• Syndication via RSS/Atom feed
• SPAM protection
• Require login to add comments

Newsletter features

• Subscription via double-opt in
• HTML and plain text format
• Sent newslettes can be listed on the website
• Synchronize subscriptions with member accounts
• Import recipients from a CSV file

Calendar features

• Multiple calendars
• Calendar and mini-calendar
• Supports syndication via RSS/Atom feed
• Multiple views (day, week, month)

File manager

• Multiple file uploads
• Image thumbnails and file preview
• Edit uploaded files with the source editor
• File operation permissions
• Copy, move, rename files or folders
• Delete folders recursively

Form generator

• Automatic input validation
• Store uploaded files on the server
• Send form data via e-mail
• Send uploaded files as e-mail attachment

Search engine

• Automatic page indexing
• Search indexing on protected pages
• Phrase search, wildcard search, AND/OR search
• Search result caching and pagination

System features

• Open Source (LGPL)
• Web-based administration
• Platform independent
• Over 60 third party extensions
• Multilingual documentation

Links:

• homepage: http://www.typolight.org/index.html
• demo: http://www.typolight.org/demo.html
• download: http://www.typolight.org/download-typolight.html