# Contao

- **Website:** <https://contao.org>
- **Primary alias:** `contao.org`
- **Founded:** 2006
- **Employees:** 11+
- **Location:** Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- **Company kind:** NON PROFIT

## Description

Contao is a powerful Open Source CMS that allows you to create professional websites and scalable web applications. Its comprehensive features and user-friendly interface make it a popular choice for international agencies and companies since 2006. With a high development standard, regular updates, and quick bug fixes, Contao ensures a secure and up-to-date experience with four years of support for LTS versions. Contao offers versatile and mobile-responsive design options, allowing you to create individual, search engine-friendly, and accessible websites for desktop, tablet, and smartphone. It also prioritizes data protection, complying with current legislation such as the GDPR. You can customize page titles, descriptions, and meta-tags for SEO purposes, and Contao uses schema.org to optimize content for search engines while generating an automatic XML sitemap. With Contao's intuitive user interface, you can easily sort elements, copy and paste using the clipboard, and even edit multiple datasets simultaneously. Contao supports modern techniques like HTTP2 and Deferred-Image-Resizing, ensuring optimal performance and fast delivery of your website. Security is also a priority, with modern password encryption and optional 2-factor authentication. Contao has been trusted by over 175,000 websites, ranging from landing pages to e-commerce and enterprise sites. Users appreciate its ease of use and the extensive resources available in the German-speaking community, including lectures, videos, and extensions. The platform also offers flexibility in customization through hooks, events, and insert tags, and it is based on the Symfony Full-Stack Framework, enabling compatibility with over 11,000 Symfony bundles for tailored solutions. As an open-source CMS, Contao is licensed under LGPL-3.0, allowing for free usage, including commercial projects. It is continuously developed on GitHub, and security issues can be responsibly reported according to Contao's security policy. Contao also hosts regular events and offers a supportive community and knowledgeable partners to assist with any inquiries or professional training needs. Get started with Contao now and experience the reliability, flexibility, and performance it offers for your project.

## Industries

- 🖥 Computers Electronics and Technology _(under Computers Electronics and Technology)_
- 🖥 Computers Electronics and Technology

## Links

- [youtube](https://youtube.com/user/contaocms)
- [github](https://github.com/contao)
- [twitter](https://twitter.com/contaocms)
- [linkedin](https://linkedin.com/company/contao-cms)
- [facebook](https://facebook.com/contao)

## Logos & icons

- icon _(primary)_ — JPEG — [download](https://cdn.brandfetch.io/id5VXk4Wnc/w/400/h/400/theme/dark/icon.jpeg?c=1bxid64Mup7aczewSAYMX&t=1778661369500)
- logo _(primary)_ — PNG, SVG — [download](https://cdn.brandfetch.io/id5VXk4Wnc/w/820/h/223/theme/dark/logo.png?c=1bxid64Mup7aczewSAYMX&t=1778661369405)

## Colors

| Name | Hex | Theme |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Big Stone | #1b3346 | dark |
| Macaroni and Cheese | #fbc282 | light |
| Gold Drop | #f47c00 | accent |

## Fonts

- Helvetica Neue — asset _(custom)_

## Imagery

- banner _(primary)_ — JPEG — [download](https://cdn.brandfetch.io/id5VXk4Wnc/w/1500/h/500/ideMpvWHAL.jpeg?c=1bxid64Mup7aczewSAYMX&t=1778661369698)

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