[Typo3] just a word of praise!

[Christoph Koehler]

well, I wish I could tell you. When I first started playing with it I was  
amazed and frustrated. But I read MTB 1,2,3 and TS by example and others  
just to get a general knowledge of stuff. I didn't know HTML and CSS very  
well, so I never really made my own template but played around with it and  
I think I got some stuff working, just in an ugly template, in a few weeks  
maybe. I was never planning on using it in the near future cos of hosting  
limitations, so I didn't do anything in a while, until I saw the minute  
website video Kasper made, and that got me hooked again. I downloaded it  
and played with it locally and got a website pretty fast with TV, nothing  
too fancy, but it went pretty fast! The hardest part was getting the CSS  
of the template right, getting TYPO3 to spit out some content was easy.
And then I have been working on a website lately, with stuff I have never  
done before, but within just a few days I got it to work.  
www.koehler.uni.cc for a demo. A few new things for me  were a different  
template for different pages, but that ended up pretty easily, and a GMENU  
(only had played with text before).
All the problems I ran into were quickly solved by looking at TS by  
example (for the menu), TSRef(general TS stuff), and FTB and this list for  
the different TV template :)
So ya, it was pretty tough at first, but now with TV it's very very very  
simple to make a basic website pretty quickly, from a TYPO3 standpoint;  
like I said, it was harder for me to get the CSS worked out and  
cross-browser compatible.

And a note about compliant code, my site almost validates XHTML 1.0  
transitional, just got to figure out how to make htmlarea do <br /> tags  
instead of <br>, so all the errors are my fault, no TYPO3's.


On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 04:10:43 -0500, Kraft Bernhard <kraftb at gmx.net> wrote:

> Mathias Schreiber [wmdb>] wrote:
>> Kraft Bernhard wrote:
>>
>>> And may I ask you too how long it took you from your First  
>>> dummy-package download and the
>>> "Argl. TYPO3 is so complicated" phase till the "Wow TYPO3 is so  
>>> cool"-phase ?
>>   about 15 minutes
>
> Sorry.
> I meant Christoph and Jane ...
>
> As I would like to be interested what the overall learning time for T3  
> is ...
>
>
> greets,
> Bernhard