Comments on: The Ideal Website for Textpattern

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:39:10 +0000

That’s great feedback, Erico; I’ll get working on it. Many thanks!

By: Erico

Erico — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:52:25 +0000

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.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:34:21 +0000

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.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:15:05 +0000

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.