TYPO3 Templates

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Getting Started
  • Basic requirements
  • How templates were created
  • Introducing TemplaVoila!
  • Installing TemplaVoila
  • Creating a basic HTML template
    • The root tag
    • The menu area
    • The content section
  • Creating your first template with the TemplaVoila Wizard
    • Selecting the HTML template
    • Configuring the new site
    • Mapping the template
    • Data elements
    • Mapping instructions
    • HTML-path
    • Action
    • Mapping rules
    • Starting to map
      • Mapping the rest of our elements
    • Header parts
    • Creating the main menu
    • Creating the submenu
    • Testing the finished template
  • The page tree
  • If something didn't work right
  • Adding content to our front page
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Enhancing your Template with CSS
  • Creating a basic stylesheet
  • Including stylesheets in TYPO3
    • What you need for your main stylesheet
    • Adding CSS with the TemplaVoila Wizard
    • Including CSS with page.stylesheet
    • Including CSS with page.includeCSS
    • Including CSS with page.headerData
  • Using default markup in TYPO3
    • Headers
    • Image with text areas
    • Bullet lists
    • Tables
    • Removing default markup in TYPO3
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: Adding Custom Template Fields
  • Modifying the page metadata
  • Adding a banner
    • Adding space for the banner to our HTML file
    • Adding the banner element to TemplaVoila
      • Configuring a data element
      • Viewing the data structure XML
    • Using our new data element
  • Adding the date to our template
    • Adding space for the date to our HTML file
    • Creating a data element
    • Viewing the updated XML
    • Showing our new banner
  • Loading the date and time from the TypoScript template
    • Changing our timestamp element in the data structure
    • Adding the timestamp object to the TypoScript template
  • Adding a dynamic logo
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: Creating Flexible Menus
  • Page tree concepts
  • Introducing HMENU
  • Types of menu objects
  • Menu item states
  • HMENU properties
  • Common menu item properties
  • Introducing text-based menus
    • TMENU Properties
  • Adding separators to menu items
  • Redesigning the text-based menus
    • Final code
  • Introducing graphic menus
  • Introducing GIFBUILDER
    • The BOX object
    • The IMAGE object
    • The TEXT object
    • GIFBUILDER layers
    • GIFBUILDER properties
  • GMENU properties
  • Creating our first graphic menu
    • Modifying based on menu states
    • Main menu code
  • Creating a graphic menu with boxes
    • Submenu code
  • Using external images for menus
  • Other types of menus
  • Breadcrumb navigation
  • Pulling it all together
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: Creating Multiple Templates
  • Creating new templates with sidebars
    • Creating the HTML and CSS
    • Adding columns to the data structure
    • Creating new TemplaVoila template objects
    • Mapping new template objects
  • Assigning a new template to our pages
  • Creating icons for templates
  • Assigning templates to subpages
  • Creating an extension template
  • Creating a printable template
    • Creating a print-only stylesheet
    • Creating a subtemplate
  • Creating a printable link
    • Adding a printable link section to the templates
    • Adding the printable link field to the data structure
    • Generating a printable link with TypoScript
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: Creating a Template from Scratch
  • Designing the template
    • Creating a wireframe
  • Creating the HTML template
  • Creating the data structure
  • Creating data structure elements
    • The banner field
    • The date field
    • The main article field
    • The news fields
    • The upcoming events title field
    • The upcoming events list
    • The event container field
    • The event date and city fields
    • The product fields
    • The contact information fields
    • The footer field
  • Mapping the template object
  • Creating a folder in the page tree
  • Setting the TypoScript values
  • Creating an example page
    • Adding test content
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: Customizing the Backend Editing
  • Updating the rich text editor
    • Editing the TSconfig
    • CSS properties
    • Classes properties
    • RTE class properties
    • Toolbar properties
    • HTML editor properties
  • Customizing the Page module
    • Creating the HTML layout
    • Assigning the backend layout
    • Adding some CSS styling
  • Setting a backend layout for a data structure with multiple template objects
  • Using backend layout files for template objects
  • Using static data structures in TemplaVoila 1.4.2
    • What are static data structures
    • Setting up static data structures
    • Modifying static data structures
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: Working with Flexible Content Elements
  • Introducing flexible content elements
  • Creating our first flexible content element
    • Building the content element
    • Testing our new content element
  • Creating a flexible HTML wrapper
    • Building the content element
    • Testing our new content element
  • Creating a multi-column layout element
  • Extending the multi-column layout element
  • Creating a product display element
    • Creating the HTML and CSS
    • Creating a customized data structure
      • Product name
      • Product class
      • Product image
      • Product price
      • Product description
      • Text for product link
      • Product link
    • Viewing our results
  • Summary

• Chapter 9: Creating a Mobile Website
  • Introducing conditions
    • Browsers
    • Versions
    • Operating systems
    • User agents
    • Language
    • Logged in users
    • Global variables and strings
    • User function
  • Testing browser compatibility
  • Creating a mobile version of your website
    • Detecting a mobile device
    • Creating a mobile stylesheet
    • Customizing our TypoScript objects
    • Bringing it all together
  • Adding a non-mobile link
  • Creating a mobile subtemplate
    • Adding a new option to our subtemplate pages
    • Creating a new TemplaVoila template for mobile devices
    • Adding our subtemplate to the TypoScript template setup
  • Redirecting to an external mobile site
  • Summary

• Chapter 10: Going International
  • Introduction to internationalization and localization
  • Adding localization to a website
    • Adding a website language
    • Adding your languages to TypoScript
  • Adding localization to pages
    • Using the localization tab in the Page view
    • Hiding non-translated pages
  • Translating content
    • Creating universal elements
    • Adding content without a default language
    • TemplaVoila translator workflow
  • Adding a basic language menu
    • Adding the language menu to our TypoScript template
    • Viewing our changes on the frontend
  • Adding flags for language selection
  • Adding a localized logo
  • Creating localized TemplaVoila templates
  • Summary

• Chapter 11: Building Websites with the TemplaVoila Framework
  • What is the TemplaVoila Framework?
  • Benefits of the TemplaVoila Framework
  • The TemplaVoila Framework workflow
  • Installing the TemplaVoila Framework
  • Setting up QuickSite for the first time
    • Assigning a site URL
    • Selecting a skin
    • Viewing our QuickSite frontend
  • Planning with the wireframe skin
  • Designing the page layouts
    • Page Templates
  • Utility FCEs
    • Column groups
    • Module groups
      • Module options
    • HTML wrapper
    • Plain image
    • Module Feature Image
  • Creating a custom skin
  • Editing a skin
    • Editing TypoScript for the HTML structure
    • Editing CSS
    • Editing TypoScript constants
    • Adding JavaScript
    • Additional resources
  • Adding special functionality
  • Adding content
    • Feature content
    • Generated content
  • Summary
  • TYPO3 Templates summary

• Index

Jeremy Greenawalt

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