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Introduction

About This Document

This document is an introduction to the basic principles of TYPO3 CMS. The example website used in this introduction will get you started immediately on your own first TYPO3 CMS website. After this tutorial you should have an overview about TYPO3 CMS's capabilities, its general structure and extension possibilities. Professional creation of templates and development with TYPO3 CMS in general are not covered by this document.

Frontend of the TYPO3 CMS Introduction Package

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  4. Join the #typo3-cms channel and ask your question

What's New

The current version is updated to reflect the changes in TYPO3 CMS 8.7 LTS.

Credits

The "Quickstart Guide" was originally written by Kasper Skårhøj and adapted to TYPO3 CMS 4.5 LTS by Philipp Gampe, Martin Holtz, Susanne Moog and François Suter. It was revised and updated to version 6.2 LTS by Guido Haase and to version 7 LTS by Francois Suter.

Feedback

If you find a bug in this manual, please be so kind as to check the online version on https://docs.typo3.org/typo3cms/GettingStartedTutorial/. From there you can hit the "Edit me on GitHub" button in the top right corner and submit a pull request via GitHub. Alternatively you can just file an issue using the bug tracker: https://github.com/TYPO3-Documentation/TYPO3CMS-Tutorial-GettingStarted/issues.

You can also contact the Documentation Team directly in the Slack channel #typo3-documentation.

Maintaining high quality documentation requires time and effort and the TYPO3 Documentation Team always appreciates support. If you want to support us, please join us on Slack or contact us via email: documentation@typo3.org.