Next steps

Note

There are other possible tasks such as: adding a second level to navigation, creating a graphical menu (without text), ensuring that the HTML output conforms to the W3C standard, etc.

In this tutorial we built the website by adding marks and subparts to an HTML file and mapping them to a TypoScript template, which is a very common way to do templating in TYPO3 CMS.

There are other possibilities (which might be covered in future tutorials):

• using the TYPO3 extension automaketemplate:, which basically works the same way we learned in this tutorial but which automatically wraps up those sections of an HTML page which have certain classes or ids in corresponding template subparts.
• using the TYPO3 extension TemplaVoila! which allows the creation of more flexible page structures.
• using only TypoScript, without any HTML template, for building the website .
• using the Fluid templating engine by applying the FLUIDTEMPLATE object rather than the TEMPLATE object.

Do you want to know more about how copying objects in TypoScript works? Do you know that you can also create so-called “references” instead of copying an object? If you want to know more about the syntax of TypoScript, have a look at the chapter t3coreapi:typoscript-syntax-start in “TYPO3 Explained”.