Welcome to Venus

This is a Composite C1 starter site showing some of the features in Composite C1. You can skin it, customize it, extend it and re-design it...

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Composite C1 is a web content management system running on Microsoft's .NET platform - ideal for integration and expansion.

Being both open source and backed by commercial support, add-ons and product warranty this top rated CMS is ideal for building company websites.

A mobile first starter site.

This starter site is based on Bootstrap - the most popular front-end framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.

All styling is handled with LESS - a CSS pre-processor, meaning that it extends the CSS language, adding features that allow variables, mixins, functions and many other techniques that allow you to make CSS that is more maintainable, themable and extendable.

How to update the design

It is easy

We ensure that you work is a structured environment where you can focus on your task - be it managing content, customizing design or adding new features.

It is powerful

You can always "break away" from the visual tools and create amazing stuff with CSS/LESS, JavaScript, ASP.NET Razor, .NET, C#, LINQ data access and so much more..

It is solid

You can get all the benefits of commercial software; product warranty, support and advanced add-ons. At a fraction of the normal cost.

About us

We are Composite - a software company based in Copenhagen, Denmark and Kiev, Ukraine. We have been building CMS since 1998 and open sourced our 3rd generation CMS platform in 2010. We strive to deliver quality in software and tooling for developers and users. We believe in open standards, unobtrusive frameworks and the power of skilled humans, be it developers, designers or users.

The Viking Spirit

Our CMS let you attack problems where it is most effective. Finish fast and clean with wizards or create perfection and customer value by hand.

Scandinavian Design

The Scandinavian focus on both form and function can be traced through the architecture, the tools and your ability to sculpture your website.

We have made the Composite C1 platform available as free open source - free of change and free for you to adapt.

We work hard to make this a pleasant experience - in return we trust you will recommend us, give us your feedback, support us and help us improve through contributions.