What better way to begin than with the classic "Hello World" program? In this section, you will not only write your first TypoScript code, but also create your first TypoScript template. We are assuming that you have installed the Dummy Package and have not created a template yet. If you already have a template, you may skip the template creation section and go straight to the actual TypoScript section.
There are a number of different ways to create the template. We will look at two of these methods, but the others work just as well. For the first method, point to Page under Web, call the context menu of one of the pages, and click on New. This creates a dataset of the type Template.
For the second method, go to Web and there to Template, and select the root page in the side-bar. TYPO3 then responds with the (very appropriate) information NO TEMPLATE.
You now have two options. You can either select the standard template from the drop-down list or create a new...