Acqal Experts Blog About TYPO3 and Other Hot Topics

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 Image Insights

By: Michael Cannon and Marlies Cohen

Photos that come straight off a digital camera are way too big for the Internet both in actual dimensions and in size and have to be resampled. For example, a 1MB image can be reduced to 50K, which will load much faster, especially for people with dial up service and it will take up less room on their computer's hard drive.

Photos generally should be saved in JPG formatIcons and graphics are usually should be saved in GIF or PNG format

Unless you really need high resolution images, try to keep your photos no bigger than 1024x1024 when uploading into TYPO3. However, you may ignore this size...

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

By: Michael Cannon

Over the past couple of weeks, I've been covering 10 ways of tt_news and 5 How-to's on Using TYPO3's tt_news . Today, I'll cover the two more of 10 alternate ways of using tt_news.

BPMinstitute.org White Papers lead generator

BPMinstitute.org has really pushed what can be done with tt_news in many avenues in regards to lead generation. Whenever downloadable content is available in a login restricted manner, downloading of the media file can trigger a lead notification event directly to the content sponsor. Additionally, the lead information can even be made available for sponsors to...

Use TypoScript for Secure URLs

By: Michael Cannon

It's possible to let TypoScript to help you with enabling secure URLs when the incoming connection is requesting such. To do so, put the following code in your TypoScript template in Constants or Setup depending upon how you set config.baseURL or config.absRefPrefix in Setup.

config.baseURL = www.acqal.com/config.absRefPrefix = www.acqal.com [globalString = _SERVER|HTTPS=on] config.baseURL = https://www.acqal.com/ config.absRefPrefix = https://www.acqal.com/ [end]

From our professional experience, we've found that a full URL for absRefPrefix is the long term...

5 How-to's on Using TYPO3's tt_news

By: Michael Cannon

Today and next week, we'll cover the how to do of last week's 10 ways of tt_news.

SavvyMiss.com Topical news Articles

SavvyMiss.com, a community for women, has lots of very topical content and for each topic, it's best served within its own section. Additionally, as each topic has its own section, there's also branded landing pages for each topic which allows for very targeted advertising.

How-to Topical news Articles

The basic premise is to create not one, but multiple tt_news content elements each with only a specific category allowed. 

To prevent having to set the order by...

10 Different Ways to Use TYPO3's tt_news

By: Michael Cannon

Sometimes showing the news is just that, but what if you want to do something different?

Here's 10 ways that Acqal clients have made TYPO3 tt_news work better for them.

Today we'll cover what's been done. Next week, we'll cover how it was done.

SavvyMiss.com Topical news Articles

SavvyMiss.com, a community for women, has lots of very topical content and for each topic, it's best served within its own section. Additionally, as each topic has its own section, there's also branded landing pages for each topic which allows for very targeted advertising.

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