Contegro CMS pronounced con-teg-ro (abbreviation for Content and Growth) is a commercial website content management system

Web content management system

A web content management system is a software system that provides website authoring, collaboration, and administration tools designed to allow users with little knowledge of web programming languages or markup languages to create and manage website content with relative ease...

 (WCMS) for building and managing medium to larger web sites. Contegro is developed on the ASP.NET

ASP.NET

ASP.NET is a Web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic Web sites, Web applications and Web services. It was first released in January 2002 with version 1.0 of the .NET Framework, and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages ...

 framework and Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database server, developed by Microsoft: It is a software product whose primary function is to store and retrieve data as requested by other software applications, be it those on the same computer or those running on another computer across a network...

 database.

History

Development for Contegro commenced in October 2005 by a company called Labyrinth Solutions in New Zealand. The objective of developing a new generation of CMS that extended the level of control available to the website administrator within an easy to use interface.

Contegro is available in two licensing options:

Contegro Server Edition - this is a ‘hosted’ solution whereby all sites share a single install of the Contegro application and database. This model provides central management of all websites and the ability to easily create new sites from within the Admin console.

Contegro Stand Alone Edition - The Contegro Stand Alone edition is aimed at large scale projects where the clients want complete ownership of the environment and/or manage the hosting.

Modules

Contegro's modular design allows for the framework to be extended with the following fully integrated add-on modules:

• Blog
  Blog
  A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
  
  
• Document Library
• E-Cards
• E-commerce Lite
• E-commerce Enterprise
• Email Campaign Management
• Events Calendar
• Form Builder
• Image gallery
• Investor Relations
  Investor relations
  Investor Relations is a strategic management responsibility that integrates finance, communication, marketing and securities law compliance to enable the most effective two-way communication between a company, the financial community, and other constituencies, which ultimately contributes to a...
  
   Suite (IR)
• Microsites (Satellite Sites)
• Polls
• Podcast
  Podcast
  A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...
  
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• RSS Feeds
  RSS
  -Mathematics:* Root-sum-square, the square root of the sum of the squares of the elements of a data set* Residual sum of squares in statistics-Technology:* RSS , "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary", a family of web feed formats...
  
   and RSS Reader
• Store Locator
• Surveys
• Vehicle Booking Engine

Features

• WYSIWYG
  WYSIWYG
  WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed onscreen during editing appears in a form closely corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product...
  
   Editor with Flash and media management, Image manager & image mapping
• Content management with versioning and workflow
  Workflow
  A workflow consists of a sequence of connected steps. It is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as work of a person, a group of persons, an organization of staff, or one or more simple or complex mechanisms. Workflow may be seen as any abstraction of real work...
  
  
• Granular level permissions for Administrators
• Membership facility with self Registration and Approval processes
• Unlimited Members and Member Groups with granular level permission to pages or modules within individual pages
• Dynamic Site Tree (Google Site Tree) and A-Z Site Tree
• Full Text Searching. Integrated with all add-on modules
• Search Engine Optimization
• Friendly URL's with URL Redirection
• Web standards - XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2.1 compliant code