A recent post by Angelo (ga.n) describes in details how to create an extension for Contao starting from a language pack, using a command line script designed specially for this. All the information and tutorial is available on his blog:
In this short article I will go through the basic options that Contao offers you to improve the Search Engine Optimization of your website.
I have recently bumped into a cool post by Alexander Dawson that treats about five files, that will complete your website. Four of them (robots.txt, sitemap.xml, dublin.rdf, opensearch.xml) are strongly connected with search engines, while the fifth is a well-known favicon.ico file. I recommend reading this article even if you are not quite interested in Search Engine Optimization.
http://sixrevisions.com/web-standards/5-web-files-that-will-improve-your-website/
Contao 2.9 is now available! The most important changes are the new Theme manager, the Extension Repository 2.0, persistent front end logins (finally!), buttons to share articles on Facebook and Twitter and a style sheet aggregator. You can find out what has been done here. Download new release: ZIP or tar.gz. Don’t forget to update your website!
In this article you will find out how to use Asynchronous Javascript And XML in your Contao modules. To communicate between the frontend and database, we will use the built-in MooTools framework, that is attached to every page template by default. (more…)
