[Typo3-doc] How to get started? Analyses of the steep learning curve

[JoH]

> What lacks is a modernized "Getting started" tutorial that fundaments
> on modern concepts: css, accesibility and templa voila.

Do you really think that TemplaVoila should be part of a "Getting started"
tutorial?
As far as I understand "Getting started" should be about the basics of TYPO3
trying to help users that never touched TYPO3 before to get behind the
"magic".
Templa Voila simply doesn't make any sense without these basics (Backend
usage, Basic TS and HTML-Templating ...) and it is still neither a sysext
nor a stable extension, although it works for most of the TV users.
And BTW: It is just one of 3 major templating concepts but definitely not
"the one and only".

IMHO the only basic tutorial (that of course needs a facelift) is the
"GoLive Tutorial" since it is using basic TypoScript and Markers only. No
weird autoparser extension or XML structures necessary.

The reason why many people tend to believe "TYPO3 = Templa Voila" is the
result of two big mistakes that have been made, while presenting the
autoparser and TV:
The autoparser Tutorial has been called "Modern Template Building" and (even
worse) the TV Tutorial is known as "Futuristic Template Building".
The words "modern" and "futuristic" gave the impression that everything else
is "old school" or "depreciated" now, which is simply wrong.

A fact is that both of them have been created based on a whishlist of just
_one_ company to fit _their_ special needs while creating pages with 3
different teams: Designers, programmers and editors.
But another fact is that a very high percentage of the TYPO3 consultancies
is working with "hybrid" people that are partly designers, programmers _and_
editors.
For these people it simply doesn't make much sense (and in most cases it is
too time consuming) to split up their work and hassle with things like TV or
autoparser.
They are creating HTML-templates, fill in some markers, create their
TS-templates and produce the content afterwards just as described in the
GoLive Tutorial.

Imagine someone, who is completely new to TYPO3 and starts experimenting
with it before presenting it as a great tool in his company.
This one will almost be such a "hybrid" and therefor he should not be
confronted with things that might be over his head.

A new "Getting started" should follow the KISS principle which means: You
should focus on the basics and leave complex things like TV to the "Advanced
TYPO3 concepts" tutorial.

Just my 0,02?

Joey

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