You of course want to use TypoScript for your own projects. As already mentioned, it does not matter in principle which TYPO3 package you have installed. However, for starting out with TypoScript the dummy package is recommended—you get an empty database and can experiment with TypoScript as much as you want. The installation of the dummy package is not shown here. You can download the dummy package from http://typo3.org/1274.0.html.

You have bought this book to learn to use TypoScript in your own projects. Here TypoScript is explained using small independent examples, so that the book serves as a reference without you having to work through a large example or case study. However, some topics, such as the template auto-parser can only be explained with the help of a detailed example page structure. So in order to avoid having to define a new example each time in such cases, the following steps define a specific one. You can use the book quite well even if you don't use this example structure; however it makes things easier. The time spent on creating the example pages is less than 5 minutes.

First right-click TYPO3 and point to New. In the right frame New record click on Page (inside):

Give this page a title (e.g. Index); disable the Hide page checkbox in the upper area of the window and save the page.

Call the Index page and click on Functions in the left menu. Make sure that the Create multiple pages wizard is selected in the drop-down list as pages can be created quite easily using this wizard.

All you have to do is to enter the desired page titles.

The pages are created via the Create pages button. You can inspect the results immediately in the page tree.

You can now assign sub-pages to the newly created pages. To do this, point to About Us, select the Create multiple pages wizard again, and create a few sub-pages.

Repeat these steps for additional pages. The result should look like this in the page tree:

That's it. You can always build on this sample installation and keep coming back to it.