[TYPO3-english] templavoila?

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi Horace,

Describing my point of view, not speaking for anyone else!

The big advantage of TV, after years using it, is (or was, don't want to
discuss alternatives here) actually not the point-and-click mapping
(cool at first but not that much once you have bigger environments with
development website, production website, ...) but the better UX in Web >
Page and the easy preparation of so-called Flexible Content Elements (FCE).

FCE are basically HTML snippets you have in your design (such as
"content on 2 columns" or "address entry") with a given HTML structure
where you have defined fields. Dumb example to make it clear, consider
this HTML snippet allowing to show address book entries with nice
looking CSS:

<div class="address-book">
	<h1>John Doe</h1>
	<p class="title">Art Director</p>
	<p class="biography">Lorem ipsum</p>
</div>

You may create a FCE mapping the whole div structure with 3 fields, one
for the name, the title and the biography (rte for instance) and then
within your page you add not a "text" content element but an "address
entry" FCE. And instead of standard header + text properties, you see
your own properties, thus "structuring" the info. The alternative could
be either a custom extension with dedicated plugins or plain HTML
content element.

Cheers
Xavier

horace grant wrote:
> hi,
> 
> the current discussion about templavoila made me curios (again). :)
> can anyone describe the advantages or great features of it?
> 
> a few years ago i have learned TYPO3 with a book that explained standard
> templates and i only have used them so far. once you have made a few
> projects you have building blocks that can be quickly reused for other
> websites. i find it quite great.
> 
> when i took a short look into templavoila it looked much more cumbersome
> with all the clicking around for binding the tags and all the xml stuff.
> much harder to reuse. i liked the possibility of backend layouts but with
> standard TYPO3 something similar is possible too since a while.
> 
> i have also read that templavoila supports custom content elements. sounds
> great but what exactly is this? custom fields like say in wordpress?
> 
> cheers,
> horace

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Xavier Perseguers
Release Manager TYPO3 4.6

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