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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)

Front-End Admin Panel Overview


The front-end admin panel is divided into a number of sections:

  • Preview

  • Cache

  • Publish

  • Editing

  • TypoScript

  • Info

We can show and hide different sections of our ADMIN PANEL using the + and - buttons displayed next to the relevant titles, as shown in the following screenshot:

Note

Unfortunately, a limitation of the front-end admin panel is that when you try to expand or collapse a section of the admin panel (using the + and - icons) the page has to be reloaded for the new sections to show or hide themselves. I would recommend that you leave frequently used sections expanded, and just hide the entire panel when you don't want to use it, as showing the panel again will expand all of the sections you had expanded previously. These preferences are stored in the TYPO3 database, and only need to be set once, not each time you log in using another computer.

Once we have opened a particular section of our ADMIN PANEL, an Update button will appear at the top of the panel to allow...