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Building Websites with TYPO3

By : Michael Peacock
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Building Websites with TYPO3

By: Michael Peacock

Overview of this book

<p>The book has 8 chapters, each dealing with a different aspect of TYPO3 and by the end you can genuinely claim to have tamed the beast that is TYPO3.</p> <p class="TISBody">TYPO3 is a popular, free, feature-rich open source content management system. It has the flexibility and scalability to more than match commercial systems and allow you to build a powerful and complex website. Because of its complex system and numerous extensions, TYPO3 can be daunting on first approach and the initial learning curve can be steep. However the nature of its advanced features will reward an extra investment in learning.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Overview of TYPO3 Features


TYPO3 has a huge list of features—too many to fully list here; the full list can be found on the TYPO3 website http://typo3.com/Feature_list.1243.0.html.

Content and Its Management

Naturally with TYPO3 being a content management system, this is where most of its features lie:

  • Create, edit, and manage web pages

  • Create, edit, and manage individual content items

  • A clipboard to copy pages and elements to, in order to paste into different sections later

  • Versioning to control changes, and multiple changes

  • Workspace and drafts, to create drafts of pages that don't take effect until ready

  • Time-controlled pages and content, i.e. content and pages that are only active between a start date and an end date

Users

Our content can be managed by many people; so TYPO3 also has user management features:

  • Create, edit, and modify users and their details

  • User permissions that control which sections users can and cannot access

  • Control over which sections a user can edit and control

Extensions

To expand on the default TYPO3 installation, we have an extension manager, which allows us to:

  • Install new extensions to add new functionality

  • Remove extensions

  • Modify some basic elements of extensions