Talk:My first TYPO3 site
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Thanks this is an excellent page, I totally agree that there should be somenthing done with the documentaion for newbies. I second all your comments on that and add a new one which you might want to include: For me it was (and sometimes still is) confusing to find out whether a piece of documentation talks about the functionality I can use from backend or only the functionality accesible by writing my own extension (which I do not know how to do) ... Several times I was "happy" to early to find some usefull function only to find out that it is some kind of API which I can not use in a simple way.
Jakub
Does anyone know WHY the Typo3 RTE does not work on IE7? Does anyone know if this functionality will be restored in the future? The lack of RTE on IE7 makes Typo3 very difficult for me to use. It also does not work on FireFox2.
Chad
The documentation looks nice and is plenty, but when I look nearer, most of the documentation diescusses older versions of typo3, so it is not consistent. I find this very confusing. Given teh complexity of typo3 on the one hand, and the very nice documentation efforts once taken when it was created for the older versions, I think typo3 could be made much easier for novice user if there would also be a team which keeps the documentation up to date (at least it could define a set of core documents, tutrials, videos etc that it would keep upto date).
A second point: I want (like everyone else) that my pages produce valif xhtml, use CSS where ever possible (e.g. no tables for layout), do not contain unneeded tags, can be accessed by all kind of devices (cell phones, different browsers, different os), meet the goverment requirements for accessibility and last but not least look nice. Also, the pages need of course to be search engine friendly.
In order to do this, it seems that I need to install several addons in typo3: e.g. there is TemplateVoila, where I can use YAML or similar. But Template Voila is not included in the basic instalation (and in order to install the "stable" Template voila, I had to insatll 2 other components (one of them betam I think), which in turn needed to install an alpha component ("div"). I would have hoped that I could install such dependencies automaticaly like in e.g. debian linux.
Also, it seems that when you want to use the freesite extension with templatevoila, one needs again to install a new extension. Then TemplateVoila is not enough: in order to produce clean code and code that meets the accessibility requirements, it seems necessary to install more extensions (usualy with accessibility in its names). But here there are several of them, sometimes even 3 with same prupose and nearly same name.
All this is very confusing. I would realy like a kind of "professional quick start" typo3 package wich has the needed extensions preconfigured (or at least a tutorial that explains this).
Hello,
you should buy a book, if you need a guide who leads you through the learning-curve. Just check amazon or another shop and you'll see many good ones!
I didn't need a book for the beginning, I just bought a book for special stuff what just extension-authors need.
For extension-documentation: When you find something what is missing then please add in in the wiki-page for that extensions - and contact the author. Then you help very much!
kind regards, --Daniel Brüßler 11:47, 24 October 2007 (CEST)
