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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)

Returning to the Site


Now that we have explored the templates available, let's return to our website. Throughout the rest of the chapter, I'm going to focus on the template CrCPH, but if you feel up to it, you may wish to try applying a different template and working with that.

The Contact Page

We have our home page completed, so let's create the contact page. This page needs to do two functions; firstly it needs to convey the different contact methods available, and it also needs to contain an online form that will allow visitors to email us directly from the site.

We create the new sub-page by clicking on the Home Page icon, and selecting New.

Then we want to create a new Page (Inside) to create the sub-page. Once we have created the page, and given it a name and saved it, we want to add the two content elements.

We can add the main content in the same way that we added the content to the homepage earlier on, using a Regular text element.

After adding the static content details, I've decided...