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This blog is intended to be reminder for me. For example to keep things like this:

In Typo3 you can add images (media) to your text and put it above, in text, below text or whatever. You select the image in the backend and... nothing happens. Only a test-image is shown with the text "cannot create thumbnail".

On my server-setup the imagemagick tools are located in /usr/local/bin but the default location typo3 is looking for is /usr/X11R6/bin. In my case, I have to change the variable:

$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['GFX']['im_path'] = '/usr/local/bin/'; 

And everything is perfect now!

Every time starting a new project, I think about if Typo3 is really the best, easiest and fastest soltution. Ok, I managed to get it working which is not that easy for the first time. But still, I think the usability in the backend is far away from beeing called "user/admin friendly". Also the amazing amount of extensions doesn't mean a lot. Many extensions are quite old, not really maintained, too simple or too complexe and very often to difficult to understand in about one hour.

So I've started yesterday to do a small CMS contest on a quite slow VIA desktop PC. I installed the following CMS and "curled" some pages as fast as possible:

1. drupal 6.9
2. redaxo 4.2.0-RC
3. typolight 2.6.7

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The result in short: Redaxo is the fastest and the others show no big differences. But... I don't like Redaxo so much, so I stay tuned on Typo3.

On linux.bigga.de/blog I've installed now some Typo3 blog and I will try to tell you from time to time my solutions and problems with Typo3 and other software monsters (especially Linux).

This blog uses the t3blog extension which is written by snowflake.ch. It took me some time to setup the Typo3 to use this extension. That's always the big task in Typo3: to install a new extension is quite simple but to get it working in the way _you_ want, may take hours. Afterwards everything is simple, of course.

Currently I am only using the bloglist, tagcloud and calendar widget of the t3blog. I can't stand social networking icons, rss-feeds and other garbage for the eyes. This is quite a nice feature of t3blog: either use all with a provided template-page or use only some widgets on any page you want.