[TYPO3-english] Newbie - Some doubts

[Philipp Gampe]

Hi,

Giuseppe Luigi Punzi wrote:

>>> For my first project, I want to do my own company website. Because my
>>> design skills are horrible, I'm doing some test trying to use Artisteer
>>> as template maker, to map later with TV in my site.
>> For your first project, I suggest you to not use TV. Choose the classic
>> template approach. Artisteer should give you a ready to use HTML
>> template. The only thing you have to do is to reproduce the output with
>> TYPO3.
> 
> Thanks for your answer. Sorry, but, what is the classic template
> approach? Use Template Auto-parser ( automaketemplate )? There are some
> tutorial about it?

There is one: Modern Template Building:
http://typo3.org/documentation/document-
library/tutorials/doc_tut_templselect/0.1.0/view/
(The screenshots are very old, but the content still works today.)

Also don't miss the Getting Started tutorial:
http://typo3.org/documentation/document-
library/tutorials/doc_tut_quickstart/1.0.0/view/
(This on is based on TYPO3 4.4, I can point you to a version for 4.5, but 
this on is still ongoing work.)

Basically you could follow those links:
http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/

> What's the problem with TV? I thought TV is easiest to newbies like me.
I creates the allusion of easy click+click templating. And usually it is not 
needed for most site. I just adds more complexity to the project and makes 
it hard to change later on.

Anyway TV is very good for flexible site, where the editors shall decide 
much about the layout.
For a normal business site with cooperate identity this is usually not 
wanted.

Anyway TV vs classic (with or without automaketemplate) is a ongoing 
discussion within those newsgroups. TV can do things which classic can't and 
the other way around.
I prefer the "keep it stupid and simple" (KISS) approach and thus strongly 
recommend the classic approach.

Best regards
-- 
Philipp Gampe