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 General Public License (GPL).
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. TYPOlight does not treat accessibility as just an additional feature and is thoroughly accessible.
Live update service
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
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
