TYPO3-Addict is your TYPO3 Blog. Bringing you tips and tricks for developing websites with TYPO3. Here you'll find TypoScript snippets, TSConfig and configuration options for your own TYPO3 website.

In this post I’ll show you 5 things about tt_news which might be nice to know about tt_news. We discuss a better pagebrowser, loading tt_news without cache and making images perfectly square by generating them automatically.

In this post I’m going to show you some basics of SEO in TYPO3, I will explain how you can easily handle SEO stuff within TYPO3. This is not a “best practise” nor is it a tutorial on how SEO works. But if you’re new to TYPO3, or SEO in TYPO3 you’ll find some useful things here.

Yslow tells you to put your javascripts at the bottom of your pages. Normally when you include your JS files TYPO3 puts them in your head by default. To fix this you can easily:
Old style:
page.includeJS.file1 = file.js
Solution:
page.20 < lib.javascript

lib.javascript = HTML
lib.javascript.value = <script type=”text/javascript” src=”file.js”></script>
Note:
In this example I take it your content is in page.10
If [...]

The TYPO3 clipboard is a very handy tool but you rarely use all 4 of them. Also, when you logout the content is gone. Both these things can be fixed by a little TSConfig:

## Makes sure the clipboard doesn’t clear:
options.saveClipboard = 1

## Reduces the amount of clipboards from 4 to 1:
options.clipboardNumberPads = 1

If ANYONE know [...]

I just found this line in the TSRef.. It’s not perfect but it makes your BE field like setup and constants in list mode wider. Just a small User TSConfig line so why not…

## Makes the BE fields wider
setup.override.edit_wideDocument = 1

See screenshots!

The following Page TSConfig line is usefull if you have a lot of records on a single page.
mod.web_list {
alternateBgColors = 1
}