Featured Textpattern Site
A gallery of outstanding Textpattern web sites.
We Love TXP
Tell us about your site
I love Textpattern, and I know I am not the only one. So I decided to create a gallery site to showcase all of the different types of sites that are built using Textpattern. You can submit any and as many sites as you like, the only entry requirement is that your site is built using Textpattern!
Why did you choose Textpattern for this site?
It is free, flexible, elegant, and easy-to-use! Keywords aside I’ve been using Textpattern since the Gamma and have never thought twice about using anything but it. From the easy templating to section and content management it really is a fantastic all round CMS, that plus the superb community and vast array of plugins makes it my number one!
Are you using any plugins?
ajw_comment_alt, csb_feed_image, css_rating, gho_comments_invite, glx_gravatar, hpw_admincss, mdn_count, rss_admin_show_adv_opts, rss_suparchive, sab_substr, tru_tags, zem_contact_lang, zem_contact_reborn, zem_nth
Visit We Love TXP
http://welovetxp.com/
Posted 172 days ago by Robin Pelham
Mosman Library
Tell us about yourself
Mosman is an historic harbour side area of 8.7 square kilometres just north of the Sydney CBD. Mosman Council administers and services this area for the benefit of residents, businesses and visitors.
Mosman Council’s website aims to provide accurate, comprehensive and timely information on Mosman Council’s activities and services as well as enabling online access to Council resources and facilitating communication online between Council and its constituents.
The visual design was commissioned from a leading Australian web standards developer (and designer!) after an information architecture had been developed.
Four templates for the static pages – Home, Section, Subsection and Individual Page – were supplied.
Team Textpattern provided the nested section functionality plus a great deal of assistance with server-specific issues and other site-specific requirements.
The HTML/CSS was done inhouse, as well as content migration and some additional templates for News and Event sections.
Why did you choose Textpattern for this site?
After evaluating many proprietary and open-sources Content Management Systems, we decided to trial Textpattern on a satellite site for the Mosman Festival in 2005.
We then used it for two local history projects (Mosman Memories of Your Street and Mosman Voices) as well as two Council subject-specific sites (Media Centre and LEP Review websites).
We found it lightweight and fast to deploy, which is plus with a web team of one.
Textpattern was chosen because of its cost, maturity and stability, the excellent community that exists around the tool, the quality of developers available for custom work, and the non-proprietary nature of its data storage.
Textpattern provided just enough for our needs. We did not require extensive interaction with back-end systems, nor sophisticated multi-author roles and versioning.
Are you using any plugins?
There are 19 plugins installed and active. Some to assist with content input (file and image popper), some with development & backups (like mcw_templates), others with including external content (simplepie and vdh_flickr).
Most important are probably zem_event (which handles events, meetings, employment ads and more) and chh_if_data (ubiquitous).
Visit Mosman Library: http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au
Posted 309 days ago by Robin Pelham
Player vs. Player
The long running online comic Player vs. Player was recently redesigned by Thin Slice.
Built from the ground up using Textpattern, pvponline.com handles 15 million page views per month with ease.
The calendar and archives were built using a mix of PHP and modified plugins. Prototype provides AJAX features in the comic archive. A custom PHP cache helps reduce the database load.
“We choose Textpattern because of it’s flexibility and large community support for plugins and tweaks,” says Jay Leiner of Thin Slice. “We’ve used Textpattern for multiple projects, but PvP is by far the most advanced.”
Design & Development: Thin Slice
CSS: Cody Lindley, Nathan Smith
Content: Scott Kurtz
Visit Player vs. Player at http://www.pvponline.com/.
Posted 569 days ago by Alex Shiels · Comment [4]