http://www.typo3newbie.com Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:55:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have done some of simpleology's courses, and they have a new one about blogging .. but I have to link to it to do it. So here goes the automatic link text... I'm evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they're letting ... http://www.typo3newbie.com/?p=46 If you are running tt_news and you want to generate an RSS feed from your content, the simplest one to use is incorporated into tt_news itself - but the manual is hard to understand. For step-by-step instructions, try WEC's "Set up an RSS fee for your news" tutorial. http://www.typo3newbie.com/?p=43 NOTE TO SELF: Don't forget to check the path in the html. It must start with a "/" - don't hardcode, don't "/../". http://www.typo3newbie.com/?p=41 Many people have said that they have found TIMTAB to be a little complex to set up. I think the most complex thing is that it incorporates a couple of extensions, and it has to be done just right. tt_news and ve_guestbook (or other commenting system) need to be installed before ... http://www.typo3newbie.com/?p=40 Back after a hiatus ... to Templavoila 1.2.0 & T3 4.0.4, and errors! I can't remember what I was up to when I last posted (funny that ... I mean, it's only 10 months ago!! :S) But I think what happened was that I thought I would try to create an ... http://www.typo3newbie.com/?p=36 I did forget a couple of things. One is, even after selecting the starting point for the plugin, and pid's to ignore, it didn't do those things. I actually had to put the sysfolder with the queries into the branch of the website that the queries were for. The other thing I ... http://www.typo3newbie.com/?p=24 No, too involved, can't be bothered. I am back to setting it up with TS template. So .. I have gotten it to work. First of all, a little explanation. The tx_gstselectpro extension *can* be used as a flexible content element with templavoila - but only if it is the only instance in ... http://www.typo3newbie.com/?p=22 I have decided to try the SelectPro extension (the more flexible version of TopContent) to see if it solves my problems of creating pages with dynamic teaser text. It is quite a complex extension, and of course I want to use it with multiple instances on a page, and it isnt templavoila ... http://www.typo3newbie.com/?p=21 Typo3 has a wonderful array of extensions from which to choose, and I love the extensibility of the CMS - however the documentation for some of them is very difficult to understand at first read. For example - in the tt_news extension, in the Category Settings sheet (tab) of the plug-in ... http://www.typo3newbie.com/?p=20 I have been customising the tt_news for my site, but having some difficulty changing the hardcoded labels in locallang.xml I can do this successfully... plugin.tt_news { _LOCAL_LANG.default { textCatLatest=Spoke: textCat=Spoke: more=more... textRelatedByCategory=Other news from this Spoke: altTextCatSelector=Display only Spoke: catmenuHeader=NewsHub Spokes } } Which changes those values... Or I can do this successfully... lib.leftnav < plugin.tt_news lib.leftnav {                           code >code = CATMENU} displayCatMenu { catmenuHeader_stdWrap.wrap = | mode = nestedWraps  # ... http://www.typo3newbie.com/?p=17