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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...

Prelude to the TYPO3 Training Survey - Definitions

By: Virgil Huston

As I have mentioned before, we will be launching a TYPO3 oriented learning method effectiveness survey. Hopefully, the launch will be this week.There are many methods of learning and elearning reflects a subset of the overall training/learning realm. There is, of course, a lot of overlap. No surprise there.This survey focuses on elearning. As the definitions below indicate, elearning does not have to be online and may even be conducted in a classroom environment. The survey asks for your opinion of the effectiveness for you of various elearning methods specifically for learning any or all...

Training Method Effectiveness for Learning TYPO3

By: Virgil Huston

As I have mentioned before, I believe that the biggest barrier to the adoption of TYPO3 is the perception that it is too difficult to learn. Many of the frustrations one sees expressed are from people who have given up because of the steep learning curve.There are a number of facets to this argument. First, I don't think anyone would disagree that there is a learning curve associated with TYPO3 for all levels of users, from the content writer to editor to publisher to administrator to developer.Any product with the enterprise level capabilities of TYPO3 requires extensive learning. This is...