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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)

TYPO3 Modules


The main section of the TYPO3 back end is broken-up into modules. A module is a section of the back end that controls a particular aspect of TYPO3.

  • We have the Web module for working with our website's content. This will be our most frequently used module.

  • The File module lets us manage files that we use within our website.

  • The Doc module lets us easily access pages that we have opened and are editing.

  • We can view users who access TYPO3 and compare their permissions using the User module.

  • Tools and settings can be accessed from the Tools module.

  • The Help module gives us quick access to a number of help topics for working with TYPO3.

  • The Admin Functions module contains some infrequently used maintenance-related tasks.

Web

The Web module contains all the tools for creating, maintaining, and managing your website and its content. In the next chapter, we will be exploring this module a lot more to create our website!

Page

With the Page sub-module, you can create pages, edit pages, manage...