Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
The Ideal Website for Textpattern
As I wanted to learn about Textpattern which many people speak so highly of, I decided the best thing to do would be to create a theme for it. My first effort is an adaptation of The Ideal Website Wordpress theme; anyone so inclined can download a copy of it from textpattern.org.
Unfortunately, what I learned is that Textpattern is not suitable for most of the projects I work on. It’s easy to work with, but doesn’t have the flexiblity I require.
Sebastian [July 11th, 2008, 12:15 am; Permalink]
Hello, I’d be interested in what type of CMS you did decide on or use most often for your projects. You mentioned that Textpattern is not flexible enough. Personally I ended up at Drupal and while it has a steep development learning curve it is rather simple to customize. I’d be interested in your experience.
Peter [July 11th, 2008, 12:34 am; Permalink]
Hi Sebastian. I’ve decided on using the best tool for the job; I’ve used Textpattern on a couple of small, personal sites which use a more traditional publishing approach, and for my professional jobs I mostly use CMSMadeSimple for sites which require extra features, and Drupal if it requires an even greater level of flexibility.
I think Textpattern and CMSMadeSimple are much easier to get custom websites up and running, but Drupal wins hands-down for extensibility.
Erico [July 15th, 2008, 12:52 pm; Permalink]
Hi, I’ve installed this theme on a local textpattern instalation. I’ve found a few details on it.
First, the comments form doesn’t show up no matter what (It always shows the “contact us” form).
The “leave us a comment” link points to an anchor (#respond) that’s nowhere to be found (This is probably related to the previous issue).
There’s an embedded style for lists (embedded?! ;-) that points to an image relatively (images/arrow.gif) so that breaks for pretty urls.
The background for the bottom part doesn’t display properly in Firefox (You get part of the list in a white background, so not all links are visible).
Anyway, thanks for a nice work. I was thinking on pulling this one myself, but (thankfully) you beat me to it.
Peter [July 15th, 2008, 1:39 pm; Permalink]
That’s great feedback, Erico; I’ll get working on it. Many thanks!