Acqal Experts Blog About TYPO3 and Other Hot Topics

Add Custom CSS Classes to the TYPO3 RTE

By: Michael Cannon

Easily enable custom CSS classes for TYPO3 RTE

TYPO3 Teaserbar and T3CON09

By: Virgil Huston

I love my new HP Mini and wrote this blog entry in a text editor using it. When I was done, I set the mini down and the battery decided to fall out. Not good. I get to now rewrite my entry. At least this isn't as bad as losing an entire research paper when I was in grad school. I think I might save as I go this time :-)

Acqal Exec Team Going to T3CON09

We are excited that the Acqal Executive Team will all be at T3CON09 in Frankfurt, for a variety of reasons. First is the conference itself, including tutorial day. The amount that may be learned is amazing and hard to describe. This year,...

FLOW3 and TYPO3 Versions 4.X and 5.0

By: Virgil Huston

The recent release of FLOW3 1.0.0 alpha 1 has caused quite a buzz in the TYPO3 community and should also be creating a similar buzz in the PHP development community as a whole. There is also some confusion in the TYPO3 world regarding FLOW3 and the upcoming release of TYPO3 version 5.0 versus the current version 4.X.Spring was an appropriate time to put out the first FLOW3 release as this is a season of rebirth. It reminds me of the wren that built its nest and raised its three chicks in our basement this spring. The bird nest was a surprise and fun to keep an eye on. We also worried that our...

10 Proven Website Essentials

By: Michael Cannon

Building and maintaining a website these days can be tough business. Whether you're a beginner or a professional, many of the issues faced for having a successful website are the same. With solid preparation, like these top 10 proven website essentials, getting started and staying online is made easier.

The 10 website essentials have below been pulled together by combing over 16 years of online content publishing and website basics research. More importantly, these essentials are ordered by frequency of consensus by fellow web content management agencies and consultants.

Through this...

Netbooks and Productivity

By: Virgil Huston

The reason I didn't get my usual blog posting out yesterday is because I was doing client work and then got preoccupied with getting my new HP Mini 1000 netbook up and running. This is one sweet little machine.My laptop has seen better days and is still quite useful, but not for toting around. For travel, I had a Verizon USB wireless card that was eligible for an upgrade. When I saw the deal on the HP Mini I jumped on it. Standard Verizon price for the mini with a two year contract ($59.95/mo for 5GB transfer, same as I was paying for the USB card) is $ 199. With the upgrade eligibility, it...

Random Thoughts: T3CON09, Lodging Woes, Germany, and TYPO3 Training

By: Virgil Huston

I am really looking forward to T3CON09. I get to see European friends and meet more, learn more and more about TYPO3, and I have an excuse to go to Germany. I love Europe, I would live there if it were practical. Hopefully, at least I will be able to retire there,Back in the day, I spent five years in Germany, in a small village called Merzalben, not far from Pirmasens, where I worked while a soldier in the US Army. We were 15 minutes from an unguarded border crossing to France, so also went there often (that was before the open borders).I was the only American in Merzalben, I was not one of...

3 More How-to's on Using TYPO3's tt_news

By: Michael Cannon

About a month ago, I presented 10 different ways of using tt_news for various clients. That was then followed up by couple of posts covering the how-to of the first 5 and 2 more different ways of tt_news usage.

Cephalon.com news product and Archive Menu

Cephalon.com is one of the world’s top ten biopharmaceutical companies with over 30 products worldwide for innovative treatments of central nervous system disorders, pain and cancer. Instead of trying to create a specific page for the top products, they let the product's menu listing be auto-generated. On a similar note, the annual archive...

TYPO3 Questionnaire Extension - Powerful and Easy to Use

By: Virgil Huston

The past couple of weeks, I have been consumed with getting the TYPO3 Training Method Effectiveness Survey up and running and now trying to promote it so as to get maximum responses from as wide a range of TYPO3 users at all levels across the world as possible.

By the way, if you haven't taken the survey already, please do, it only takes a few minutes. Click here for the survey.

I used the TYPO3 extension Questionnaire (pbsurvey) to put the survey together and the ease of use and excellent manual allowed me to concentrate on survey design rather than spend a lot of time learning how to use...

TYPO3 Training - What Works?

By: Virgil Huston

TYPO3 Training Method Effectiveness Survey Launched

I have written a number of blog postings here about TYPO3 training and what I perceive as problems associated with overcoming the TYPO3 learning curve, a factor that is often mentioned (perhaps more than any other) as a reason for not using TYPO3 by individuals, agencies and potential clients of TYPO3 agencies. I am not going to repeat these opinions nor am I going to link to the previous blogs because all they are is opinion and educated guessing based on what I have heard and read in the TYPO3 and wider CMS / WMS world. We all know about...

Nominate TYPO3 and FLOW3 for the SourceForge Community Choice Awards

By: Karsten Dambekalns

Hi TYPO3 members! It's time for the annual SourceForge Community Choice awards and we need your help to get TYPO3 and FLOW3 nominated! The more nominations we receive, the better our chances of being a finalist. Click on the links and nominate

  tr.im/nominateTYPO3 for "Best Project" and "Best Project for the Enterprise"   http://tr.im/nominateFLOW3 for "Best New Project" and "Most Likely to Change the Way You Do Everything"

If we win a nomination, then we can potentially go on to win the category award. Thanks in advance for...