[Typo3] template design question

[David Pratten]

Dear Thomas,

As you are probably aware - there are multiple generations of
template/content linkage in Typo 3.  The latest being TemplaVoila.  If you
are wanting to use 3.7.0 and the earlier Modern Template Building style of
template/content linkage the htmlcssstyling extension and it's flash
tutorials (doctuthtmlcssstyling) may give you some more ideas to play with.

This includes a nice implementation of common page content shared between
pages.

David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: typo3-english-bounces at lists.netfielders.de 
> [mailto:typo3-english-bounces at lists.netfielders.de] On Behalf 
> Of Thomas Bolioli
> Sent: Wednesday, 13 April 2005 9:03 PM
> To: typo3-english at lists.netfielders.de
> Subject: [Typo3] template design question
> 
> 
> I am new to typo3 and invariably with my luck, the first site 
> I need to 
> do is a complex one designed completely by a graphic artist. 
> Rhyme and 
> reason took a vacation on this one. There are pages with one to three 
> column main sections, different color top banners, etc and the nav is 
> completely disconnected from a nice, structured hierarchy. 
> The only good 
> thing is that most of the site template i common. Think a three cell 
> table (header, main and footer) where the main cell is then 
> broken into 
> 1-3 cells and the changing colors all effect images and table 
> backgrounds. My questions:
> 
> Is there a way to hard code (as opposed to HMENU) nav into 
> the template 
> while preserving the ability for urls to still be constructed 
> via typo3? 
> ie; java's c:url.
> 
> Is there a way to "echo" back typoscript variables into the 
> html? I want 
> to fix the changing color thing by using a variable in the page setup 
> and have it used in the construction of urls, class names, 
> etc; I looked 
> through the ref and nothing seemed to scream out at me.
> 
> Is there a way to have a template within a template? I want to have a 
> template that applies site wide while then having a secondary 
> template 
> that embed inside the main cell of the first. I looked at ext 
> templates 
> but I am not sure what they are and how they fit in. Any pointers to 
> docs (or alternative ideas) for that would be appreciated. 
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