[Typo3] template design question

Wed Apr 13 17:47:44 CEST 2005

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>Standard warning here: Typo3 is a pretty complex system. Typically, the
>best time to learn it is *not* while undertaking a large or complex
>project...
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Yeah, that was obvious to me from the second I agreed to do this... ;-) 
I can't wait until I get to the extension building part of the project...

I was under the impression that templavoilla requires 3.8.0. I am using 
3.7.0. I will look into it as I had originally avoided it to avoid the 
dev 3.8.0. Also, the css styling may not be sufficient since I need to 
actually change urls for images, not just styles. However, I *may* be 
able to put the images as table backgrounds which puts the image urls in 
css and therefore your suggestion would work. However, if there is a 
method that does not rely on css styling, that would be great.
Thanks,
Tom

Christopher wrote:

>Hi,
>
>--- Thomas Bolioli <tpblists at terranovum.com> wrote:
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>>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. <snip>
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>Standard warning here: Typo3 is a pretty complex system. Typically, the
>best time to learn it is *not* while undertaking a large or complex
>project...
>
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>>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.
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>Not that I know of, but you can do anything you want by combining HMENU +
>css. More on this below...
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>>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.
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>The easiest way of changing colors on a per page basis is to change the id
>of the page's body tag. Then, by using contextual selectors in the css, you
>can change the colours (and most other display properties) of *anything*
>inside the body element *for that page only*. For example:
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>HTML
>==========
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><body id="products">
><!-- "Products" changes according to the page or section you're in; this is
>pretty simple with TS, and possibly even easier with Templavoila (depends
>on your requirements) -->
>...
>...
><ul id="navigation">
>  <li>Lorem</li>
>  <li>Ipsum</li>
>  <li>Dolor</li>
></ul>
>...
>...
></body>
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>CSS
>==========
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>body#products ul#navigation {
>  /* Styles go here for the way the menu appears ONLY on the 'products'
>page */
>}
>
>body#contactUs ul#navigation {
>  /* Styles go here for the totally different way the menu appears on the
>'contact us' page :) */
>}
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>To get a better idea how much design flexibility you can have just by
>applying different styling to unordered lists with identical markup, have a
>look at the listamatic pages [1]. The same principles can be applied to
>entire layouts - though you may want to get into this gradually :) - as you
>can see at http://www.csszengarden.com.
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>>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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>Templavoila and the 'Futuristic Template Building' tutorial [2] are
>probably what you need to get started with what you're describing. Using
>Templavoila, any page layout you dream up should be possible as long as
>it's possible in html in the first place...
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>-Christopher
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>[1] http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/
>[2] http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/doc_tut_ftb1/
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