Welcome to TYPOlight
TYPOlight webCMS 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. It was developed by Leo Feyer in 2004 and has been released under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
TYPOlight key features
Here are some prominent features that make TYPOlight stand out from the variety of content management systems. If you want to learn more, check out the
full feature list.
- Live update feature
- Multilingual documentation
- Accessible XHTML strict output
- Uses Ajax and Web 2.0 technologies
- Multi-language support (character set UTF-8)
- Cross-browser CSS framework generator (IE7 compatible)
- Built-in file manager, search engine and form generator
- Multiple back end languages and back end themes
- Front end output 100% template based
- Versioning and undo management
Recent news
TYPOlight version 2.5.8 is available. The maintenance release fixes an important permission issue and adds some new hooks and an alternative PDF library (TCPDF) that supports unicode characters.
Read more...
Accessibility
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. Most of the existing systems, however, do not have an accessible administration area and if at all confine themselves to building accessible front end pages! TYPOlight does not treat accessibility as just an additional feature and is 100% accessible.
Live update *
A common disadvantage of many applications is their release cycle. Quite often, it only takes a few hours to fix a major bug but a couple of weeks or even months until the next update is released. Depending on the severity of those bugs, this can not only handicap your work but also endanger the security of your server. TYPOlight's powerful live update feature allows you to receive updates with only a few clicks as soon as a bug has been fixed. You do not have to download an update archive and you do not have to use an FTP client to upload new files.
TYPOlight benefits from the potential of PHP5
PHP is a popular programming language that is available on almost every commercial web server and allows to create a wide range of applications. Originally designed as a small set of Perl scripts, it has continuously developed to a full-grown programming language including object-oriented functionality and several other performance-enhancing features. A lot of this functionality was only introduced in version 5, therefore TYPOlight is written in PHP5.
* The live update service is an affordable third party service provided by
iNet Robots Ltd. & Co. KG.
