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#1 2007-04-02 04:22:24
- nardo
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- From: tuvalahiti
- Registered: 2004-04-22
- Posts: 743
How do you manage Txp sustainability?
Sometimes you have to move hosts, hand-over code or content to other people, upgrade your Txp install, deal with redesigns or functionality requests…
be interested to hear how people manage Txp sustainability
shifting a site onto a subdomain (for archiving purposes) last week, I appreciated that the great majority of links were not hand-coded… so a simple tip, but one worth repeating…
- when linking to a section, use its tag!
<txp:section name="portfolio" title=1 link=1 />or<txp:section name="portfolio">Previous work</txp:section> - link articles internally by ID …
<txp:permlink id="123" />or<txp:permlink id="123">Strange things happen on a Friday night</txp:permlink>
other issues include plugins, remembering logins, dealing with spam from comments or contact forms, labelling & annotation conventions to assist with tracking forms & pages
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Re: How do you manage Txp sustainability?
I don’t do that much, other than linking with TXP tags and using txp:image and txp:article_image for images. For local installs, I link with <txp:site_url /> for headers, CSS, JS, etc. I always change those links to root-relative for live sites though.
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#3 2007-04-02 04:55:13
- nardo
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- From: tuvalahiti
- Registered: 2004-04-22
- Posts: 743
Re: How do you manage Txp sustainability?
sometimes image paths in the css need to be updated when moving sites… #body {background:#fff url(/images/2.jpg) no-repeat;} – can’t use a Txp tag there – or can u??
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Re: How do you manage Txp sustainability?
Whoops, I meant linking to the CSS file (<link href="<txp:site_url />lib/something.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />). I do keep the same directory structure, so the CSS can use a relative url() to the image:
index.php
files/
images/
lib/
something.css
something.js
img/
design_img.png
textpattern/Then the CSS:
selector {
background: url(img/design_img.png);
}ako_cssParse allows you to use TXP tags in your CSS, but I prefer external css files instead of TXP-managed CSS.
Last edited by jm (2007-04-02 06:36:55)
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#5 2008-04-15 18:01:17
- alannie
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- From: Minnesota, USA
- Registered: 2005-09-15
- Posts: 150
Re: How do you manage Txp sustainability?
I know I’m chiming in a year late, but this is an interesting topic. How do you handle links within the article body, using Textile? We often have “content editors” formatting the content who are not very technical, so I hesitate to confuse them with any TXP or HTML tags. They are familiar with Textile only.
Currently I just have them use root relative links, as in "here's a Textile'd link":/section/page-title
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Re: How do you manage Txp sustainability?
> use root relative links
Good! better than absolute URLs what I do all the time.
The 1st tip from Nardo is really a good one but one has always to remember :(
Still, the tip is ‘old but gold’.
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#7 2008-04-16 18:02:36
- alannie
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- From: Minnesota, USA
- Registered: 2005-09-15
- Posts: 150
Re: How do you manage Txp sustainability?
I agree, if you have the ability to configure your development and server environments to support root-relative links, root-relative URLs seem to be the easiest to manage.
In my mind the only reason to use absolute URLs would be if you are unable to set up such an environment. I was just curious if others have additional reasons that absolute URLs would be more suitable than root-relative URLs.
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