Beginner

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What is Contao

History

Contao was started in the year 2006 under the name TYPOlight.

Starting with release 2.9 (2010) the project is continuously developed under the name "Contao Open Source CMS".

Dissociation from other CMS

Contao is following consequently the management of content within an container principle.

The hierarchy is as follows: Page => Article => Content element.

Therefore pages consist of articles, which are organized on a webpage in layout sections as "left column", "right column" and "main column". Each of these articles are containers of content elements like texts and images for example.

This method of organizing and managing content allows beginners to work with the system straight forward and very intuitively.