Contao Open Source CMS

Contao is a modern, sophisticated open source content management system that has become well-established beyond the German-speaking world. Contao impresses with its extensive functionality and flexible extensibility, even in its basic version. The system uses state-of-the technologies such as PHP5, Ajax, HTML5 or CSS3, supporting accessible websites and standard-compliant implementation.

The official Contao website gives you a detailed overview of the most important Contao functionalities.

Website maintenance: Contao Live Update

Contao features a so-called Live Update functionality, enabling you to update all system components with one click. This ensures that your website is always up-to-date, offers you maximum functionality and increases security of your website. Should there ever be a security risk (which happened only twice in several years!), it can be eliminated within minutes thanks to Live Update.

Extensible

We follow the rule stating that the code of the basic system should be left unchanged.

Otherwise it would not be possible to update a website with Live Update anymore
or any changes might be lost after an update.

Contao features a strong framework, which makes it easy to add own extensions and adapt each area of the basic system to your own requirements in an update-proof manner while at the same time enjoying full compatibility and flexibility.

Reliable

Contao is being used by thousands of people all around the world to create anything from simple websites with few pages to installations with more than 40 domains and more than five thousand pages.

The “inventor” of the system comes from Germany. Contao is, thus, very much geared to European standards, enjoying increasing popularity not only in the German-speaking area but all over Europe.