The document discusses strategies for launching websites quickly and cheaply using customizable packages called "Kickstarters" that include templates, modular Typoscript configurations, simplified backends, and recommendations for version control and common platforms for maintenance. It provides examples of existing Kickstarter packages from Busy Noggin and Web-Empowered Church that incorporate best practices for CSS frameworks, shared constants, and external Typoscript configurations.

1. KICKSTARTING SITES
PROJECT
WITH A CUSTOM PACKAGE
DATE CLIENT
04.17.2009 T3CON09-DALLAS

2. Ron Hall
Busy Noggin
Jeff Segars
Web-Empowered Church

3. Why kickstart?
Launch quicker and cheaper.
Maintain less code.

8. KICKSTARTER 1.0
(WHAT YOU’RE ALREADY DOING)

9. ⌘+C
KICKSTARTER 1.0
(WHAT YOU’RE ALREADY DOING)

10. ⌘+C
⌘+V
KICKSTARTER 1.0
(WHAT YOU’RE ALREADY DOING)

11. KICKSTARTER 2.0
(WHAT YOU NEED TO BE DOING)

12. ⌘+C
KICKSTARTER 2.0
(WHAT YOU NEED TO BE DOING)

13. ⌘+C
⌘+V
KICKSTARTER 2.0
(WHAT YOU NEED TO BE DOING)

14. ⌘+C
⌘+V
⌘+S
KICKSTARTER 2.0
(WHAT YOU NEED TO BE DOING)

15. ADAPT BEST PRACTICES FROM THE SITES YOU BUILD
NOT A ONE SIZE FITS ALL SOLUTION!

16. Templates
CSS Frameworks, inheritance & FCEs.

17. Modular Typoscript
Menus, constants, and external files.

18. CSS Zen Garden Menus
mainMenu = HMENU
mainMenu {
entryLevel = 0
1 = TMENU
1{
wrap = <ul>|</ul>
NO {
allWrap = <li> | </li>
}
ACT < .NO
ACT = 1
ACT {
allWrap = <li class=quot;altquot;> | </li>
}
}
}

19. Shared configuration with custom constants
# Define the date and time formats
constants.wec.dateFormat = %m/%d/%y
constants.wec.timeFormat = %I:%M %p
# Convert the date format of news to WEC constant defined value
plugin.tt_news {
displaySingle.date_stdWrap.strftime = {$constants.wec.dateFormat}
displayLatest.date_stdWrap.strftime = {$constants.wec.dateFormat}
displayList.date_stdWrap.strftime = {$constants.wec.dateFormat}
displaySingle.time_stdWrap.strftime = {$constants.wec.timeFormat}
displayLatest.time_stdWrap.strftime = {$constants.wec.timeFormat}
displayList.time_stdWrap.strftime = {$constants.wec.timeFormat}
}
# Convert the date format of blog comments to WEC Constant defined value.
plugin.tx_veguestbook_pi1 {
datetime_stdWrap.strftime= {$constants.wec.dateTimeFormat}
date_stdWrap.strftime= {$constants.wec.dateFormat}
time_stdWrap.strftime= {$constants.wec.timeFormat}
}
example: wec_constants

20. External Typoscript via TS Setup
<INCLUDE TYPOSCRIPT src=”fileadmin/resources/ts/menu.ts” />
External Typoscript via Extensions
<?php
t3lib_extMgm::addStaticFile($_EXTKEY,'static/ts/','My Menu');
?>
example: wec_constants

21. Simplified Backends
Groups, permissions & TSConfig

24. Groups and Permissions
• Keep configuration in groups not users
• Baseline group for common settings
• Task or section based groups applied to
pagetree
example: WEC Starter Package

25. TSConfig & TCA
// Allow additional fields to be excluded in user and group records.
$TCA['tt_content']['columns']['header_position']['exclude'] = 1;
$TCA['tt_content']['columns']['header_link']['exclude'] = 1;
// Force new content elements to be allowed before they appear.
$TCA['tt_content']['columns']['list_type']['config']['authMode'] = 'explicitAllow';
// If be_acl is loaded, hide its records from list view.
if (t3lib_extMgm::isLoaded('be_acl')) {
t3lib_extMgm::addPageTSConfig('
mod.web_list.hideTables := addToList(tx_beacl_acl)
');
}
example: wec_config

26. Maintenance
Version control and a common platform.

27. Build up or tear down?
Broad client base vs. niche markets

28. What goes into your package?
Extensions, Typoscript Libraries, etc.

29. The Busy Noggin Quicksite
http://templavoila.busynoggin.com
WEC Starter Package
http://www.webempoweredchurch.com

30. Credits
• Kickstarter Photo
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adifferentryan/133065997/
• One Size Fits All Photo
http://www.flickr.com/photos/angusf/2270317189/