Typo3 is a Free Open Source Software (FOSS) for content management of website. A content management system like Typo3 is used to create, manage, and maintain single or multiple websites.
Typo3 has a very flexible and high-performance extendable architecture which makes Typo3 a very robust and customizable system. Because of its high-performance and extendable architecture it is also known as content management framework.
Typo3 virtually has almost all custom solutions available as Typo3 extensions. Typo3 extensions are like modules which adds custom features and solutions to your website build on Typo3.
Using TYPO3 everyone can participate in web-based communication and customer relations. Seamless integration of multimedia content types and on-the-fly server-side image manipulation and generation are among the numerous standard options inside this comprehensive tool box for web-based communication. Also included is an internal messaging and workflow communication system for shared authoring and collaboration.
TYPO3 features extremely detailed user-rights-management options for implementing professional content creation and editing work flows. TYPO3 is a server-side platform-independent application for use with virtually every browser available.
Web developers and agencies will appreciate the complete separation of content and look. Therefore, TYPO3 puts no limit on design options expected by professional website creators and is easy to update and accommodate re-launches. It is database-driven and scales easily to deliver web pages and embedded formats in an enterprise content providing environment.
Currently it is the most popular Open Source CMS in Germany and Europe.
Typo3 is a enterprise class content mangement system (CMS) build as Open Source Software (OSS). Typo3 has over 1,22,000 Installations (estimated by referer to TER) 20,221 Registered users on TYPO3.org and over 1300 extensions. Visit typo3.org/about/statistics/ for more updated statistics.
* Typo3 is a framework and not just another CMS
* Inbuild page handling support
* Supreme content handling and positioning architecture
* Site template handling and scripting language (Typo Script)
* Integrated Access control mechanism
* Customozable Menu/navigation system
* Multi lingual support
* Multiple sites per setup; More site per site
* Please visit www.typo3.com & www.typo3.org for more information.
Typo3 Extensions form a functionality abstraction layer for Typo3 which makes developing custom solutions based on Typo3 a well organized, efficient and robust process.
Typo3 itself is a framework for content management with core services like page management, file/image management, permission handling, database abstraction layers, etc. which form the core of Typo3. Typo3 extensions add the various other features like news management, forums, product shops, etc.