スノーフレイク株式会社・snowflake

Last Friday evening, snowflake organized together with the Josai International University the first TYPO3 Theme Designer seminar. It was held in a seminar room at JIU's Media Campus in Makuhari.

In this seminar, we were giving a brief introduction, how templates work in TYPO3 and also how to add a new function.

Each seminar participant had its own computer with a pre-installed version of TYPO3 ready to use. And we started off by giving an overview of TYPO3 first.

Actually, students from the internship program were giving the first part of the presentation: what is the TYPO3 backend, login into the administration panel, guiding through the page tree, making new content elements, first element with text-only... then adding pictures, making a new webpage, and so forth.

After that, André Oechslin was guiding through the workflow for making new TYPO3 themes. We prepared a very basic, but easy setup using the approach of "modern template building" with the TYPO3 extension automaketemplate.

Having installed the theme, next André explained the task for the exercise: the rootline on the html template was still static, now how to fill it with dynamic content from the navigation (page tree)? Step-by-step, all participants followed his instructions and achieved this goal.

Finally, we prepared a short test with 10 questions. They were free to join and it was already close to 9pm, still everybody was filling out the test sheet and close to all participants were rewarded with a certificate at the end of this seminar.

It was an interesting evening: for participants to get a inside view into template-making with TYPO3 and for snowflake on teaching Web Designers in Japan about CMS technology.