TYPO3 Templates

Content: TYPO3 Templates
 TYPO3 Templates
 Credits
 About the Author
 Acknowledgment
 About the Reviewers
 Preface
 What this book covers
 What you need for this book
 Who this book is for
 Conventions
 Reader feedback
 Customer support
 Errata
 Piracy
 Questions
 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 elementsMapping 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
 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 TYPO3Headers
 Image with text areas
 Bullet lists
 Tables
 Removing default markup in TYPO3
 Summary
 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 structureAdding the timestamp object to the TypoScript template
 Adding a dynamic logo
 Summary
 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 menuModifying 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
 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.