[TYPO3] how to actually work with typo3?

[Benjamin Todd]

I'd recommend using the TemplaVoila extension
(http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/templavoila/1.3.1/) rather
then using the old Typo3 templating method (providing you know how to
make your own html templates). 

Read the Futuristic Template Building tutorial -
http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/tutorials/doc_tut_ftb1/1
.0.1/view/toc/0/

HTH,

Ben :)

-----Original Message-----
How do I use this thing? What tutorials can tell me exactly
how this works? Why can't the examples in, say, the Modern
Template building tutorial actually work? (I've tried importing
them, and the extensions manager shows them as loading, but
I can't do anything with the files.) It doesn't help that
these things are distributed in a file format I cannot easily
take apart and view the contents of. How does one extract
the parts of a .t3d file? Why does the filelist tool in Typo3
try to display them when I click on them there? My browser
cannot display a .t3d file and just prompts me to save it.

Benjamin