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What is a Wireframe?

A wireframe provides a flexible modeling tool for determining functional requirements and the layout of a web site before before any artwork is developed.

Wireframes also act as a communication tool between clients, creators, managers and developers to determine the content and structure of a project before time and money is spent on final design and development.

www.deyalexander.com/resources/uxd/wireframes.html
www.sitepoint.com/article/wire-frame-your-site/

Category: Zen Wireframe

What is Zen Wireframe?

Zen Wireframe is a turnkey sample TYPO3 web site and project starter using the wireframe model for maximum simplicity.

New adopters can harness the power of popular pre-configured TYPO3 extensions without the steep learning curve. Seasoned users will save time using pages containing pre-configured extensions.

Designers can use the wireframe templates to quickly adapt their own graphics to create custom designs. Alternatively, designers can use their own CSS/HTML templates apply the provided TypoScript/Markers, container templates and extension templates for their new projects.

Category: Zen Wireframe

What is the difference between Core and Business?

Zen Wireframe Core contains less TYPO3 extension plugins, extension Typoscript templates and extension HTML/CSS files than Zen Wireframe Business. Core and Business Wireframes were created to be used together or separately to save time.

The development strategy is to use Zen Wireframe Business and the TYPO3 Pagetree Export / Import Tool to export pages containing extensions from Zen Wireframe Business into Zen Wireframe Core or another TYPO3 project.

Please see the demo about page for details.

Once pages are imported into Zen Wireframe Core from Zen Wireframe Business, a minimal amount manual work will be needed to get the extensions up and running. It will be necessary to manually reassign Page IDs for each extension's Typoscript template.

You will also need to upload the required HTML/CSS files for the extension(s) using the same file path to fileadmin/templates/zwire/ folder. Be sure to install any extensions that the Exported .t3d file is dependent on such as the Page StyleSheet Selector before importing the .t3d file!

wiki.typo3.org/index.php/Faq/copy_parts_of_a_running_TYPO3_system_to_another_server

Category: Zen Wireframe

Can I use my own HTML/CSS design?

Yes, you can use Zen Wireframe's Typoscript extension templates, extension HTML/CSS templates and Typoscript HTML Markers for your own HTML/XHTML templates. Demo pages are well documented with quick reference links to Typoscript extension templates, HTML and CSS.

Use the Typoscript Markers below for your own HTML/XHTML templates found in core templates 1column.html, 2column-style1.html, 2column-style2.html, 2column-style3.html and 3column.html

<!-- ###DOCUMENT_BODY### START-->

<!-- ###TOPNAV### START -->
<!-- ###TOPNAV### END -->

<!-- ###MASTHEAD### START -->
<!-- ###MASTHEAD### END-->

<!-- ###SEARCH_FORM### START -->
<!-- ###SEARCH_FORM### END-->

<!-- ###ADVSEARCH-LINK### START -->
<!-- ###ADVSEARCH-LINK### END-->

<!-- ###MEMBER-LINKS### START -->
<!-- ###MEMBER-LINKS### END-->

<!-- ###BREADCRUMB### START -->
<!-- ###BREADCRUMB### END-->

<!-- ###PRINT### START -->
<!-- ###PRINT### END-->

<!-- ###TIPAFRIEND### START -->
<!-- ###TIPAFRIEND### END-->

<!--TYPO3SEARCH_begin-->
<!-- ###CONTENT### START-->
<!-- ###CONTENT### END-->
<!--TYPO3SEARCH_end-->

<!-- ###CONTENT_RIGHT### START-->
<!-- ###CONTENT_RIGHT### END-->

<!-- ###VERTNAV_TITLE### START-->
<!-- ###VERTNAV_TITLE### END-->

<!--###VERTNAV### START-->
<!--###VERTNAV### END-->

<!-- ###CONTENT_LEFT### START-->
<!-- ###CONTENT_LEFT### END-->

<!--###CONTENT_BORDER### START-->
<!--###CONTENT_BORDER### END-->

<!--###COPYRIGHT-LINKS### START-->
<!--###COPYRIGHT-LINKS### END-->

<!-- ###DOCUMENT_BODY### END-->

Category: Zen Wireframe

Is Zen Wireframe TYPO3 version dependent?

Zen Wireframe Core templates are not dependent on TYPO3 version however, the extensions you download through the TYPO3 Extension Repository (TER) may be. Essentially Zen Wireframe is a collection of HTML and CSS templates with TypoScript to configure pages and extensions.

Please refer to the document titled zwire-extensions.txt to see what extensions were tested for the Zen Wireframe version. Should an upgraded TYPO3 extension version no longer function properly or adversely effect another extension(s), you may need to downgrade to the version tested in the zwire-extensions.txt document. You can also research a solution or find an alternative extension.

It is recommended to keep a development version of Zen Wireframe Core and Zen Wireframe Business to test new Typoscript templates and HTML/CSS before applying them to live projects. It is also highly recommended to have a current development version of your live project available for testing like test.myproject.com, dev.myproject.com, etc.. Always do a database backup of the live project site before upgrading extensions or TYPO3!

There is no guarantee TYPO3 extensions in TER will be forward compatible with newer versions of TYPO3 or stable in the future. Please contact the extension author(s) if you experience bug specific issues with an extension. To report bugs specific to TYPO3, please visit bugs.typo3.org and help report them.

Category: Zen Wireframe

Can we upgrade Zen Wireframe Core to Business and future upgrades?

You can manually copy over updated Typoscript Templates and HTML/CSS files from newer versions of Zen Wireframe into older ones and use the TYPO3 Pagetree Export / Import Tool to copy features in Zen Wireframe Business into Zen Wireframe Core. See the demo about page for details.

As of Zen Wireframe v2.1, Typoscript templates and HTML/CSS file locations have been documented for most TYPO3 extensions within the demo site on each page. Please visit zwire.mediatech.net and zbiz.mediatech.net for the latest Typoscript templates and HTML/CSS updates. Updates will be announced at our forum mediatech.net/typo3-forum.html.

It is recommended to keep a development version of Zen Wireframe Core and Zen Wireframe Business to test new Typoscript templates and HTML/CSS before applying them to live projects. It is also highly recommended to have a current development version of your live project available for testing like test.myproject.com, dev.myproject.com, etc.. Always do a database backup of the live project site before upgrading extensions or TYPO3!

Category: Zen Wireframe

Why can I see the Backend pages but no Frontend pages after importing the .t3d file?

TYPO3 extensions listed in zwire-extensions.txt must be installed before importing the .t3d file. Failure to do so will result in no data records for those extensions being imported and HTML/CSS templates will not be configured properly.

If this occurs, you will either need to do a fresh install and start over, or pick up where you left off before you imported the .t3d file using a database backup. It is recommended that you do a database backup once you believe all extensions have been installed properly in case you forget something. A database backup also serves as a way to quickly implement future projects using Zen Wireframe.

Another reason for blank pages may be that you need to increase the memory limit in your server's php.ini file. The minimum requirement of PHP memory for TYPO3 is 16MB. The recommended memory limit is 25MB or more.

wiki.typo3.org/index.php/System_requirements

Category: Zen Wireframe

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What is TYPO3?

TYPO3 is a Web Content Management Framework licensed under the GPL used to develop and maintain web sites and applications. TYPO3 is used by enterprise-level organizations such as Harvard, Philips and Volkswagon to name a few.

TYPO3 enables non technical users to manage their own content using a word processor like editor.

TYPO3 enables developers to the rapidly deploy large scalable Intranet, extranet and search engine optimized (SEO) web sites at greatly reduced times and costs.

Category: TYPO3

Who owns TYPO3?

TYPO3 is licensed under the GPL license. The intellectual ownership of the code belongs to the developers who wrote it. Anyone is allowed to use and modify TYPO3 as long as they comply with the terms of the GPL license.

www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Category: TYPO3

Who develops TYPO3?

TYPO3 is the original creation of Kasper Skarhoj who started TYPO3 in 1998. Many companies and individuals are responsible for the development and contributions of TYPO3. The non-profit and non-commercial TYPO3 Association organizes and supports official core development.

Category: TYPO3