[TYPO3] Template troubles

[Tyler Kraft]

 > This is about 12 hours work starting with Typo3 from scratch.

After a while you'll be able to build a whole simple site in les time 
than that!



> 3) When i was presented Typo3 by a friend I was sure that he was editing 
> the pages themselves. Meaning: He was seeing the entire page in his 
> viewport and directly edited the information in there (text, images 
> etc). Is this a plugin? I do not mean just clicking "view", I'm sure it 
> looked different, basically like a wysiwyg editor built into Typo3.

Have a look at front end editing (You'll need tsconf documnet to help 
set it up). And then also look at using one of the RTEs.



> It is definitely a lot less accessible than any other platfrom I have 
> ever used, like WordPress or MovableType, PhpBB and other template 
> driven  platforms.

Fine but its probably several times over more powerful than them as well 
- so thats the trade off, more work for more choice and more power.