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TYPO3 Templates

By : Jeremy Greenawalt
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TYPO3 Templates

By: Jeremy Greenawalt

Overview of this book

<p>The template systems in TYPO3 make it one of the most powerful content management systems available today, but they seem too complex for many users. Site developers who are able to learn how to use them efficiently can build more extensible sites quicker and more customized for their users.</p> <p>This book is a step-by-step guide for building and customizing templates in TYPO3 using the best solutions<br />available. It takes the readers through one complete example to create a fully functional demonstration site using TypoScript, TemplaVoila, and other core TYPO3 technologies.</p> <p>This book starts with the basics of creating an example TYPO3 site before showing you how to add your own stylesheets and enhanced JavaScript to the template. You learn about the different types of menus and navigation, and you can try out each one with practical examples in the book. The book shows how to create multiple templates for sections or individual pages in TYPO3 and how you can make a new template completely from scratch for a newsletter. Just as importantly, you learn how to update the editing experience and impress your clients with a custom back-end. Finally, you will learn how to specialize for browsers and internationalize your TYPO3 site with simple template updates.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
TYPO3 Templates
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Using static data structures in TemplaVoila 1.4.2


While we are talking about editing the data structures and backend layout options, we need to look at where TemplaVoila is going in the future. TemplaVoila 1.4.2 introduced static data structures as a new way of working the DS XML files, and the current workflow that we have been using for this chapter may be deprecated at some point. As of this writing, this feature is still experimental.

In fact, it is the experimental aspect of static data structures that made me almost not talk about it. It is well tested in several environments, though; it's just not going to be turned on by default for a few more versions of TemplaVoila.

For simple websites, you can skip this section. If you build enterprise websites or build a lot of websites with the same template elements, static data structures can be very helpful. I am including it in this chapter because it will change the way we build backend layout files, but it is not necessary for many simple...