[Typo3] Moving from MTB to TemplaVoila

Dmitry Dulepov typo3 at fm-world.ru
Mon Nov 7 21:01:50 CET 2005


Hi!

Michael Nardell wrote:
> First of all, I am new to Typo3 in general, and TemplaVoila in particular. I 
> have just started working through the TemplaVoila tutorial. At the same 
> time, I am going to need to start producing a site using Typo3. In order to 
> get up to speed as soon as possible, I was planning on building the site 
> using a MTB approach, and then add TemplaVoila functionality where its is 
> specifically required (in those particular cases where a columnar layout 
> will not work.)
> 
> I wanted to see if there are significant problems with mixing MTB with 
> TemplaVoila. Or if it is prohibitvely difficult to migrate a site originally 
> developed with MTB techniques to a TempaVoila approach. If this seems like a 
> bad idea to people I will try to hold off on building the site using MTB... 
> instead I will try to get up to speed using TemplaVoila and then build using 
> strictly TemplaVoila.

These two methods are not compatible. TemplaVoila has its own procedure
to process sites. I suggest that you skip MTB phase and go directly to
TV version. It is useful to *learn* MTB but if you will not be able to
migrate easily.

Dmitry.



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