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TYPO3 Templates

By : Jeremy Greenawalt
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TYPO3 Templates

By: Jeremy Greenawalt

Overview of this book

<p>The template systems in TYPO3 make it one of the most powerful content management systems available today, but they seem too complex for many users. Site developers who are able to learn how to use them efficiently can build more extensible sites quicker and more customized for their users.</p> <p>This book is a step-by-step guide for building and customizing templates in TYPO3 using the best solutions<br />available. It takes the readers through one complete example to create a fully functional demonstration site using TypoScript, TemplaVoila, and other core TYPO3 technologies.</p> <p>This book starts with the basics of creating an example TYPO3 site before showing you how to add your own stylesheets and enhanced JavaScript to the template. You learn about the different types of menus and navigation, and you can try out each one with practical examples in the book. The book shows how to create multiple templates for sections or individual pages in TYPO3 and how you can make a new template completely from scratch for a newsletter. Just as importantly, you learn how to update the editing experience and impress your clients with a custom back-end. Finally, you will learn how to specialize for browsers and internationalize your TYPO3 site with simple template updates.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
TYPO3 Templates
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Creating icons for templates


Now that we've created our first set of templates, we should make it just a little bit easier for editors to pick the right one in the page properties. TYPO3 includes all available TemplaVoila templates in the appropriate drop-down menus, but we can create preview icons for our templates that will show up in the page properties. Preview icons are actually helpful for a couple of reasons.

Of course, preview icons can be created to show what the template will actually look like. Like I said before, naming our templates is important, but sometimes a picture works even better. A preview icon is whatever we create, but there are basically two options that are normally used: screenshots or wireframes. If we want, we can take screenshots of an example page for each template and shrink it down to illustrate the template. If that sounds too busy or possibly confusing for a thumbnail, another idea is just to create wireframes like the examples in this section. With a basic...