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TYPO3 Highlights

• Dynamic graphics generation
  You will simply love it: Create graphical menus on the fly - with background image layers, typography, overlays, dropshadows, alpha channel masking and much more. Add or remove titles and see the graphics regenerating instantly!
  TYPO3 has a long-held reputation for providing a very powerful engine for graphics generation which is still a unique feature among even top-notch CMSs.
  (Optional feature which requires certain server software to be available)
• Image processing
  Resize images physically just right for web-display (no HTML-scaling!) No need to know of graphics formats, pixel dimensions or filesizes - just upload images directly from digicam or CD-ROMs and let TYPO3 do the rest. Even non-web formats like TIF, AI, PDF, PCX etc. can be converted into correctly scaled and optimized images perfectly fittting the needs of the web.
  (Optional feature which requires certain server software to be available)
• Intelligent Imaging
  Many modern CMSs provide WYSIWYG editors. TYPO3 provides more than that. Because WYSIWYGs also impose the problem that users can change "too much" (for example by incorrect image handling by a user). TYPO3's unique "Magic Image" technology intelligently takes notice of that and rescales distorted images accordingly to its real dimensions from the original source.
• TypoScript template engine.
  The template engine is powered by TYPO3's own declarational configuration “language”, TypoScript. This gives you the power to customize any of the default configurations as well as customize content for visitors based on client browser, IP-numbers, operating system, disability or any user-defined parameter (through PHP).
  The TypoScript engine can be seemlessly combined with custom PHP-logic.
• Hierarchical structure
  All objects - pages and records - are organized in a hierarchical tree structure similar to a computer filesystem with folders and files inside. Not only is this concept well known by any computer user, but it's is also the best concept by far for clear organization of information.
• Multiple sites
  TYPO3's core architecture has been designed to handle an unlimited number of independent websites or projects within the same system. Corporate solutions with internet, intranets, extranets, subdivisions can be handled in the same system. Multiple smaller websites served by an ISP can also share the same database. This is both extremely usefull and an efficient way to lower maintenance costs.
• Editing of static files
  TYPO3 mainly manages content from the database. However, TYPO3 can also be configured to edit static HTML-files with the inherent WYSIWYG capabilities. Thus even special static pages can be managed through the intuitive editor.
• Open architecture.
  TYPO3 offers a flexible and open structure, it is based on open standards and programmed in the most popular web scripting language (PHP4) available. That offers you the freedom to “escape” from TYPO3 into a technology used by 8 million domains and known by maybe as many programmers world wide.
• Quick Implementation Time.
  A crew of developers experienced with TYPO3 can implement a design for a website in ranging from a matter of hours to a few days given a medium amount of requirements. Even when extensive customization is needed, TYPO3 - as a framework, provides powerful concepts which cut down development time and more importantly ensures that sudden changes in project specifications are easy to handle.
• Expandable on all levels.
  TYPO3 can be extended on many levels. Not only does the architecture allow you to perform data processing with your own PHP-scripts, classes and functionsm but it also allows you to seemlessly integrate your own or third party backend modules, website plugins, database tables etc. And for the really hardcore programmer, any class used in the core system can be extended and customized without ever losing backwards compatibility with new versions of the core system.
• Modularized.
  The modularized structure does not mean any extra costs in time. TYPO3 offers all extensions for free and you get the full package by default - you enable only the features you need. Furthermore, developers from all over the world are currently collaborating on making new extensions as needed, often sponsored by a customer who has requested it.
• Unique caching technique
  Dynamic publishing often involves heavy processing from time to time. TYPO3 is optimized to handle these situations cleverly. When the page is first called, all major data processing is performed once, then cached. With the next page request, the result is immediately returned. This applies to all levels - from serving pages to generation of menus and to the complex assemblance of layered images. Made once, served many times. But it doesn't stop there.
• Multiple editing modes
  Authors can either control the content from the backend which offers an “inside” overview of the content and access to all control features. Or, if it fits the purpose better, they can switch to the context oriented, intuitive "Frontend Editing" mode, where they simply surf the website, find the correct element, click the edit-symbol found near the element and edit the content. This is the same award winning technology known from high-end systems like RedDot SmartEdit.
  Frontend editing is so intuitive that users need practically no training!
• Cross-format Search Engine The trouble with large sites is that they tend to confuse users and often even creators. Remembering that bit of text written two years ago, or that special list might be easy, but the whereabouts of such an item, regardless of whether it's a regular webpage-element, a PDF or a Word document, let alone a message board item or any other part of your website, is hard to find or recreate from memory. That is what a true search engine should be doing. Consider it done. It's included.
• Large developer community
  TYPO3 has a large world wide community of developers with clients from all types of business branches securing its continual development of any additional modern requirements of a CMS.
• Much for nothing
  TYPO3 is licensed under GNU/GPL. Therefore, TYPO3 requires no license costs unlike its commercial competitors. TYPO3 is created with an abundance mentality where all acknowledged TYPO3 consultancies provide fundings for the development of features which will eventually benefit the whole community. Noone keeps the best ideas for themselves which insures that wheel is not invented twice.

Users (content authors)

You deal with the system from the perspective of a typical creator of content - you are in charge of public relations, you are in marketing, a journalist, an author, a secretary, etc.

Your Tasks: writing articles, providing images and multimedia content formats like video and sound files. In short, you are producing and managing what the website will have to offer to the audience.

• Authoring
  Platform independent, publish everywhere: The website can be edited through any computer connected to the internet with a current web browser - wherever you are, no other software needed.
• More than 33 backend languages
  Users are served with a full integration of more than 33 languages including english, danish, german, norwegian, italian, french, spanish, dutch, czech, polish, slovenian, finnish, turkish, russian, romanian, portuguese and swedish.
• WYSIWYG editing
  A Rich Text Editor (RTE) allows users to format text, insert images and create internal and external links just like in Word or any other word processor. Currently, only accessible through Microsoft Internet Explorer on Windows PC's. (All other browsers do not support RTE yet, but otherwise work fine)
• Automatic design preservation
  Text formatting is foolproof. Your work will always match the basic design settings of the page. Therefore visual integrity is ensured while authoring articles.
• Automated image processing
  TYPO3 offers automatic management of images, ensuring correct size and quality for the web.. “Magic image” technology in the RTE ensures full quality control of proportions and size.
• Fast and intuitive interface
  The fast backend interface works in any modern web browser, is highly streamlined and fully customizable for any extensions. Reuse of components and consistency of concepts within makes the TYPO3 backend easy to navigate and understand.
  The division into primary and secondary form fields allows the user to see only the most frequently used input options, while advanced options are normally hidden and displayed on demand.
• Clipboard and Copy/Cut/Paste
  The well known copy/cut/paste concept is used with the internal clipboard to manage rearrangement of all internal objects. For repositioning of pages and content elements, wizards are available to do the job even easier!
• Context sensitive menu
  A context sensitive menu gives users direct access to the most popular functions of an object with a single click on it's icon. This saves time and spares hands and wrists of users operating a mouse daily.
• Innovative shortcuts
  Repetitive operations and frequently used internal modules can be captured as a shortcut in a single click. Having a collection of shortcuts, users can jump around inside TYPO3 in no time at all. Shortcuts can be grouped, named and even imposed by administrators upon user groups.
• Easy addition of hyperlinks
  Links are applied with extreme ease. TYPO3 insures that there are no "broken" or "dead" links within the system.
• Wizards
  TYPO3 features wizards for making tables, bullet lists, mail forms, etc.
• Content Management:
  All kinds of content types are to be added through easy to understand forms. No technical limit to the amount of items accomodated by the content structure per site, per category or per page.
• Page tree structure
  Pages are arranged in a clear hierarchic tree structure well known by any computer user from the local computer filesystem with folders and files.
• File and media management
  The internal filemanager allows users to upload, rename, copy, move, delete and even edit files online. Backend users and groups can be assigned private home-directories on the server. Any filepath on the server - internally or reachable from the internet - can be “mounted” in TYPO3.
• Multiple Page Editing
  Any level of pages can be loaded into an editing form specifying parameters like name, date online/offline, etc. to be edited at the same time!
• Offline editing status:
  Each page content item, not just the complete page or a branch can be kept in an offline state until finished and then be published by one single click.
• Preview content online
  Hidden, time- or access restricted content can be easily previewed in it's real environment.
• Context sensitive help
  The backend interface offers context sensitive help from small icons. The help texts are available in local languages.
• Scheduled publishing:
  Pages and page content as well as news items can be set to automatically go on and offline.
• Import
  MS Word documents - or other rich text content from client applications or the web - can easily be imported by simple copy-paste.
• Version Management
  All of the changes to a document are recorded in a version management system. There is an infinite undo option within a complete and legible view of the documents version history.
• Multilanguage
  Different language versions can be inserted and maintained on a per-page basis instead of having to create seperate page trees.
• Personalization
  Through PHP, user logins and the unique speed-optimized integration of dynamic content, you can personalize the web experience for the visitors to the website.
• Plugins
  Many default plugins are available such as forums, calendars, guestbooks, sitemaps, banner-controls, email-forms, polls, ratings, faqs, glossaries, news, and online shop systems. The list of user contributed "install-in-one-click" plugins is growing daily in the online extension repository.
• Direct Mail module / Newsletter system
  A Direct Mail system is able to send highly personalized emails to newletter subscribes. A unique filtering technology allows a batch of thousands of rich media emails to be customized in one billion combinations and tagged with personal recipient information. Response-tracking gives a detailed image of campaign success.
• Indexed search engine
  Indexed full text search in TYPO3 pages and external media files like TXT, HTML, MS Word and PDF-files. Includes advanced options for searching only parts of a website and intelligent relevance rated display of results. Direct search in SQL database tables is of course possible as well.
• Frontend editing
  All contents can be edited through the website itself even more intuitively. Simply click on the content you want to edit while browsing the pages. An administration panel is available for the user on the frontend webpage. This allows users to edit, move objects, delete or hide pages, manage lists of database records directly and intuitively on the webpage. A technology closely resembling the award winning “SmartEdit” technology known from RedDot CMS.
• Minimal training needed
  WYSIWYG editing, frontend editing, table and form wizards, automatic image handling, generation of graphics on-the-fly - these features make any average PC user an effective content author in seconds.
• Time to market
  Content bypasses typical bottlenecks of licenced software and single access. Any number of editors can be enabled through TYPO3 to create the website!

Administrators

You are the superuser who is approaching the system from a daily management perspective, who creates users, assigns responsibilities, creates and supervises workflows. You are also in charge of the webserver and the technical infrastructure and security.

• Detailed user management & customization.
  Ready-to-run defaults combined with an extreme level of customizing options (defined in TypoScript syntax) provide the possibility to fine tune the backend authoring environment for every user or whole groups and subgroups.
• Permission control.
  Access control of pages is available on user, owner and group scheme (similar to UNIX). Additional security provided by locking users to certain mountpoints in the page tree.
• User management and overview
  Authorize backend users and groups to access and edit only certain objects and modules in certain sections of the website. Simple or complex roles can be assigned to users. An overview tool makes it easy to analyse the permissions of a large amounts of users. The systems scales from a handfull to thousands of users and groups with ease.
• Pageview statistics
  Statistics are available ranging from simple internal hit-counters to advanced analysis of standard or extended logfiles written out by TYPO3. Furthermore, page impressions made by previews from staff members can be excluded, so only true page hits from customers are written to logfiles: You get a precise picture of your success on the web.
• Workflow engine
  A straight line workflow engine makes production and approval of content a breeze in a workgroup of authors, editors and reviewers.
• Simultaneous Editing Warning
  Simultaneous editing and potential loss of work is prevented since a warning sign is displayed to users trying to access a record already opened. To administrators, the time since the record has been accessed and the user name is visible.
• Task Center for workgroup collaboration
  A powerful Task Center provides administrators, authors and editors with a To-Do list, messaging system, notepad, and shortcuts to recently processed objects.
• Logging
  All backend activitites are logged and changes can be monitored, tracked and rolled back. This prevents accidental loss of information.
• Version control and unlimited undo's
  Sub-version control - called “history” - allows an unlimited levels of undo for all objects. Also, TYPO3 offers "difference" analysis between current and previous states of an object allows reviewers or editors to quickly identify changes in objects through the workflow process.
• Raw database access
  TYPO3 acts like an advanced database manager with a high-level frontend for manipulating database content. Another popular PHP-application, the database manager phpMyAdmin, has been integrated into TYPO3 and preconfigured with the current database. TYPO3 automatically handles the access to phpMyAdmin. With phpMyAdmin administrators, are allowed to do really low level operation of the database.
• Advanced multilevel caching
  Demanding processes such as generation of menus and image scaling is done only once due to the caching capabilities of TYPO3. Calculations are made on the first request and subsequently served from the internal cache.
• Staging System included
  TYPO3 can be configured to be used in a Live-/Production Server Environment dividing the Production Server from the Webserver for maximum security and webserver performance.

Developers

You are the initial creators of the website and the TYPO3 wizards. Typically, this task is performed by a web agency who designs, planns and implements the TYPO3 solution. You expect powerful creation and management of the website on a metalevel and complete division of content and structure/design.

• TypoSript Meta Language
  TYPO3 has an advanced template technology based on its own configuration language, TypoScript, which is parsed by the system to build the actual pages, including graphical menues, headers and more.
• Cascading Templates
  TypoScript is arranged in templates in the built-in editor (complete with online reference and debug tool) and provides a powerful possibilty to control and design the complete site on all levels from a meta-perspective, instead of configuration on page-level. Templates can be cascaded and allow overriding of values on further levels. Standard TypoScript templates allow easy entry by providing working out-of-the-box configurations.
• HTML-Templates
  Other template types are HTML-files for swift configuration of the display of news, a message board, etc. HTML-Templates can also be used for the complete site.
• Template scalability
  With an architecture allowing an unlimited number of templates you can not only implement different templates for different audiences for a single site - you can do it for any number of parallel sites as well!
• Template analysis tools
  Along with the TypoScript engine comes a dedicated module for template creation, featuring a Constant Editor for general design options and an Object Browser for a precise look into the TypoScript object hierarchy. A Template Analyser provides an overview of the nested order of included templates.
• Reduced redesign times
  Redesign times are seriously reduced - central changes in templates affects whole sections of the website at once. Last-minute changes are easily incorporated due to the flexible technology and server side image creation/manipulation.
• Extension manager
  Having the TYPO3 core system installed you can add extensions from the large online extension repository with no coding in a single one-click operation. Boost your installation with e-commerce solutions, community portals, messageboards, discussion-forums, calendars, polls, search-features, guestbooks, rating applications in a matter of seconds through this hassle-free tool.
• Extension kickstarter wizard
  Need custom coding? The extension wizard kickstarts the making of plugins and guides the developer to follow the recommended guidelines for making plugins and modules. This ensures adherence to the TYPO3 architecture standards which is for your own good since it allows for easy updates by dividing core and extension files. It will even help you to easily share your work with the friendly TYPO3 developer community.
• Own PHP4 scripts
  It is still possible to have every imaginable connection to external data sources by integrating your own PHP-scripts through TYPO3. Needing to display an XML newsfeed, or do you need to query a database? If it's not already available in the extension repository, you can make it yourself using this world standard web scripting language.
• Multimedia integration
  Integration of multimedia elements like video, audio, flash animations, Java applets etc. Custom HTML code can be included easily.
• Protected areas
  Provide intranets, extranets and password protected sections of the website. Utilize security features such as IP filtering. Access is controlled by users and groups and can be restricted on both page and single object levels. Furthermore TYPO3 can run under SSL, different ports than port 80 and from alternative admin-directories if you are very paranoid.
• Metatag content
  Meta data such as description and keywords can be entered generally for a template and for individual pages. Further meta data can easily be applied through custom extensions to any object in the system.
• Publish static, dynamic and cached content
  Publish any mixture of static HTML (for speed), dynamic content (for database interaction) or a truely mix of dynamic and cached content for the best of both. Run any third party product simultaneously with TYPO3 on a site if needed.
• Search engine compatible
  Compatible with all search engines (webcrawlers) - all pages will be indexed (software requirements apply).
• Output formats
  Template engine allows for browser detection, printable versions, versions for PDAs etc., use of CSS stylesheets, WML for mobile phones, XML for data exchange, SGML for print. Any output format can be generated by PHP-extensions.
• Version Control with unlimited Undo
  All changes can be tracked throughout the complete development phase. You can always view changes and go back.
• Migration in stages
  Because TYPO3 can coexist with static HTML-files you can settle for a gradual conversion from static to a dynamic site. You don't have to complete such a migration if you prefer certain sections being static. TYPO3 can even be configured to work with portions of content inside the static files in a controlled manner.
• Install Tool
  The Install Tool eases both the installation and upgrade procedures needed. It analyzes the PHP configuration and available server components. It also offers diagnostic tools for testing that all the features are working properly. Basic installation is done in less than a minute, including database creation and dump.
• Easy updates
  Upgrades from any previous version are performed in a snap because the Install Tool identifies any database updates needed and provides a one-click opportunity to perform the necessary changes. Your own files and tables are always protected. On UNIX Systems, the updating procedure is designed to make the exchange of the codebase possible by replacing one (!) symlink.
• TYPO3 Testsite
  TYPO3 comes with a comprehensive collection of example pages and configurations for all kinds of content types and menues.
• Multiple projects/websites
  TYPO3 is built for management of multiple, independent websites in the same installation. This makes it perfect for application service providers (ASPs/ISPs) or web agencies managing many small to medium size sites for customers.

Technology

• Browser based
  TYPO3 requires no special software installed for users. All modern graphical browser can be used. Internet Explorer 5+ is recommended though.
• Strong PHP4 / MySQL
  Based on the extremely popular and fast PHP4 scripting language combined with MySQL. Thus a basic TYPO3 installation can be used with most ISP's today.
• Optional image processing
  Features like image processing requires extra, but commonly available server software like GDlib, Freetype and ImageMagick.
• Sound codebase
  Strict project guidelines, naming convension policies and a full overview of system globals provide a clean codebase. All relevant source code is encapsulated in classes which can all easily be extended by a PHP-programmer.
• Relational Database
  Storage of content is done in a very fast relational database. See www.MySQL.org for benchmark information.
• Security
  Secure file downloads can be configured. Password submission and storage (backend) is md5-encrypted. IP-filtering can be applied for intranets, extranets and administration sections. Multi-state login-notification by email provides effective “burglar alarm”. True encryption of data-transfer available through standard webserver Secure Socket Layer (SSL).

Support

• Abundant documentation
  Detailed documentation including multimedia visualizations covers all levels of the product, in particular the important technical issues.
• World wide community
  Large world wide community - always help to get online.
• Professional consultancies
  Local consultancy groups and partners network.

Recognition

• Stable and trusted
  For years TYPO3 has been stable, tested by users worldwide under a variety of conditions.
• Hundreds of working installations.
  And counting.
• Good press reviews
  Acknowledged by the press as a high quality Open Source CMS.

Price / License

• GPL license.
  GNU/GPL license provides inherent rights to perform any system change or customization thereby giving true independence of manufacturer or agency.
• Free
  Being licensed under the Gnu Public Licence (GPL) TYPO3 is free.

Note: Whenever a feature is optional it means that certain software or hardware demands apply. It never indicates any extra cost!

Scheduled for development

There are a number of main CMS features scheduled for development in the near future. These include:

• Workflow and Content Syndication
  Enhancing the existing workflow system to provide a more streamlined service. Multilevel / multipath workflow.
• Staging environment
  With the upcoming Live-Production Environment (LPE) TYPO3 will be completed as a publishing engine for high-traffic sites.
• LDAP support
  Backend and frontend user authentication through LDAP.
• Database abstraction
  For use with other RDBs than MySQL.
• Java-based alternative Rich Text Editor.
  For non-MSIE browsers.

Easy, Auto-Install with Fantastico

With Fantastico 2.5 De Luxe you can install TYPO3 into your home or sub-directory, in add-on domains and in subdomains. Installation is automatic, and upgrades can be automated too.

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