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Copyright 2003, Kasper Skårhøj, <kasper@typo3.com>
This document is published under the Open Content License
available from http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml
The content of this document is related to TYPO3
- a GNU/GPL CMS/Framework available from www.typo3.com
This tutorial will introduce you to the basic principles of TYPO3. You will get started hands-on with your first TYPO3 website. After this tutorial you will have an idea of the capabilities of TYPO3 as well as complexities involved.
This tutorial will require you to install some software. If you just want to get a feel for TYPO3 before installing anything you should take a look at the demo-site at http://demo.typo3.com/ first.
Professional creation of templates and development with TYPO3 in general are not covered in detail in this document! That is done in the next tutorial - Modern Template Building, Part 1 - and basically the remaining body of literature on TYPO3 development!
The example website in this tutorial is for a football club called "FC Bigfeet". The website looks like this:
With this simple website you will learn to:
Edit and create pages, content on pages, insert images, tables, bullet lists, links etc.
Create password protected areas of the website.
Insert special content like email forms, search boxes, site maps etc.
Create a guest book or a message board.
Change colors, background images, fonts - even how to select another template!
Manage backend users that maintain different parts of your website
Create a workflow for news item creation on the front page
How TYPO3 organizes pages in a tree structure and stores content.
If you would rather like to read this tutorial as a PDF document you can download it here.
Not many of the documents which are meant for TYPO3 developers are available in other languages. There are different reasons for that. One important reason is that the common language we use within the international developer community, is English. Even if an open source community like ours could manage maintaining the big amount of documentation which exists for TYPO3 in several languages, the developers soon wouldn't speak about the same, just because of their different languages.
That's why basically all documents dealing with the development of TYPO3 will be available only in English. And the central point for discussions will for the next period most likely be the English mailing list.
This tutorial is meant to help you getting started with TYPO3. For this reason we decided to allow the translation of it into other languages. In the localized version of this document please don't wonder about the use of English words mixed in: If you want to understand the English documents later on, it's important to get used to the English termini from the very start.
I would like to dedicate this tutorial to:
All my TYPO3 friends I have got from the snowboard tours - meeting you and realizing there are people behind the emails is worth it all.
My most lovely wife, Rie - thanks for all the patience and love you have shown, even when the work load needed your shoulders as well.
My savior, Jesus Christ - thanks for creating such a wonderful world with all its potential for us human beings to create beautiful things as well. Thanks for being the way and the truth and the life.
Happy reading!
- kasper
