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Zotonic's Hot Features

Zotonic is the content management system for people that want a fast, extensible, flexible and complete system for dynamic web sites. It is built from the ground up with rich internet applications ánd web publishing in mind.

  • Solid programming language

    Zotonic is programmed in Erlang, a language made for fast, non-stop, fault-tolerant applications. Ideal to build high load, never break websites in.

  • Open Source front-end stuff

    Builds on jQuery and the CSS framework Atatonic.

  • Flexible datamodel

    Define your own data categories and relations.

  • Open Source

    Zotonic is available under the Apache License 2. It's our way to say thanks to the giants on who's shoulders we stand.

  • MVC

    Complete separation of model, view and controller has been a best practice for building websites a long time. We embrace MVC and many more best practices to make it easy for you to use the power of Zotonic.

  • Modular

    Easy to extend and change existing functionality.

  • Speed

    Typically 10 times (and much more) faster than PHP content management systems.

  • WebSockets and Comet

    Push content to the browser with the built-in WebSockets and Comet support.

  • Template Language

    We took the ease and power of the Django templating system, added some extra design freedom and gave it raw speed.

  • Proven and powerful database

    PostgreSQL is the most advanced open source object-relational database system. We choose it for its power, speed and maturity.

  • Keep it real

    Made to make real life web sites.

  • Work together

    Access control for groups of people working together on the content.

  • Built by people with loads of experience

    Made by experienced people with deep understanding of CMS, web- and system design.

  • Event driven

    Event driven AJAX web applications without the Javascript pain.