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What is a content management system?

A content management system (CMS) helps you to create your website and manage all necessary media.

Content, structure and design

The three main components of a website are split up. This gives you crucial advantages.
You can easily create a new design for your website, without having to update any contents. Design and contents adapt to each other.

Easily create new content, with no programming experience necessary!

Using a graphical interface (Frontend or Backend), users can insert or edit texts, images, as well as other media. Using the server-side graphics engine Typo3 uses, it is very easy to insert dynamically created images, such as for graphical menus or headlines.

Benefits of a CMS

• maintenance of a website without any technical know-how
• insert and modify content, using a real text editor
• No HTML-skills necessary
• user and access control to avoid unauthorized changes of content
• Management of different predefined layouts and designs
• automatic generation of menu-items from database tables
• faulty hyperlinks are avoided, because they are only displayed for valid pages
• all content is saved in a central database
• the format of content can be adapted for webbrowsers, WAP, PDAs and print view
• extendable modules like forums, polls, shops, statistics, search-plugins and news-management can be installed at any time
• the system is sufficiently secure due to regular updates
• contents can be prepared in a hidden mode, so that they are only viewable to certain users, in order to proof and / or rate them before publishing
  
  

Requirements

Supported Operating Systems:

Windows (version 9x and above), Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, other Unix systems

Supported Webservers:

all which support MySQL/PHP

Supported Database-systems:

MySQL, Oracle

Necessary Software:

PHP (version 4x and above), MySQL, Apache, GD-Lib (Freetype), ImageMagick

Supported Scripting Languages:

all scripting languages supported by the webserver

Supported Languages:

Arabic, Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (simplified), Danish, German, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Greek, Greenlandic, Hebrew, Icelandic, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian , Swedish, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Thai, Czech, Turkish, Ukrainian, Hungarian

XML Support:

integration of external XML sources (Open Office, Office 2003 XML-Format) integration of RDF sources as well as other data sources available using plugins

ICE-Standard Support:

No

API Programming-Interface Support:

Yes

Frequently asked Questions

Do I have to pay anything for Typo3?

TYPO3 is an open source project and underlies the gnu public license (GPL). Therefore, TYPO3 is available to anyone, free of charge.

Can I evaluate my website??

There is a statistic module already integrated into the administrative area of Typo3.

Can I import different types of documents??

Using the copy-paste method, You can import any type of text-elements.

Can I save user and access data to user profiles?

Using the User Admin module, You have the possibility to create different user profiles.

How can a user change content?

Content can be changed using the administrative area (backend) of Typo3. Users can also modify content directly in the frontend of the website, when logged in.

Can I create different categories for different types of content elements?

You can freely choose the categories and subcategories for which content should be created.

Can contents be imported into Typo3?

Contents can be imported using either a clipboard or an import-filter. Furthermore, images can be edited directly on the server.

Which page-parameters can be defined?

Metatags (title, description, keywords, author, email)
System-internal page settings (different page-types, statuses, publishing starting date, access control to usergroups, subtitles, last changes, caching options and much more)

Do I have the possibility to have sitemaps and indexing pages automatically generated?

Typo3 contains 8 different types of sitemap-variants:

Menu of these pages, Menu subpages to these pages, Menu subpages to these pages (with abstract), Menu subpages to these pages + sections, Sitemap, Section index (pagecontent w/ index checked), Recently updated pages, Related pages (based on keywords)

How much traffic is supported by Typo3?

When using a database, up to 100 hits per second.
When using the staging mode it depends on the performance and distribution of the webserver(s).

Can I export / import an existing Typo3 website?

Yes, the exchange of whole page trees as well as all necessary files and content can be imported as well as exported.

Can I create and manage multilingual content elements?

Typo3 supports the management of multilingual pages with shared resources (like images, logos etc.).

How do I backup my website?

You can backup the entire database using the phpMyAdmin tool, available in the Typo3 backend.

Additionally, you can back up the entire page tree.

Can I revert to previous versions of some content of my website?

A change-history allows you to revert to any older versions of content elements.

Are my Typo3 links automatically being checked and, if necessary, corrected?

Typo3 checks all internal links and updates them as necessary, when for example a page within the page tree structure has been moved or renamed. Hyperlinks where the target pages have been removed, remain as plain text.

Who is Typo3 suitable for?

Typo3 focuses especially towards small and medium businesses, appreciating the benefits of Typo3 and open source software: unlimited possibilities of interference and extendability.

How does Typo3 manage my images?

Images and other resources are saved centrally (Digital Asset Management), in order to constantly guarantee access to your uploaded media.

How do I use templates with Typo3?

Typo3 allows the use of HTML templates in which freely configurable placeholders can be placed. You can create different templates for different websites and sub-pages / sub-categories. Typo3 already contains several predefined templates and examples for you to use.

Can I incorporate different content editors?

You can install many different text-editors. (PHP-IDE's, Dreamweaver WYSIWIG-Editor, Golive WYSIWIG-Editor, ...)

Which plugins and extensions can I use?

There are extensions available for many different branches of use
Shop Systems, News, Newsletter, Calendar, Addressbook, Guestbook, Linklistings, Forums, Archives, Polls, ...

Which types of databases can I use with Typo3?

Typo3 uses the freely available MYSQL RDBMS. Some adaptations for other wide-spread database types can be found on the official Typo3 website.

Is there an integrated search-plugin available?

Yes, Typo3 has an easy-to-implement standard module for full-text search.

Can external database-requests be set up?

Yes, therefore an extension is needed though.