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Building Websites with TYPO3

By : Michael Peacock
Book Image

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)

Chapter 4. Setting Up the Site

Now that we know the features and workings of the TYPO3 back end, it's time for us to really start using TYPO3 and set-up our website! In this chapter we will learn:

  • How to apply our knowledge from Chapter 3, in order to build a website

  • What templates are available to us

  • How to customize templates

  • Basic uses of content versioning

We will start with our first page, and then take a step back to look, in detail, at the templates available to us, and how to use them. Once we have explored the templates, we will return to creating the rest of our site. After we have built our website, we will return again to the templates, and customize the template we are using, and also look at some of the versioning features.