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#1 2007-07-05 01:05:47
- moslib
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local government site
A month ago we launched this local government website powered by Textpattern.
It was built off crockery by Team Textpattern with the main feature being nested sections. I believe this code is available to the developers to further refine towards the 4.1.0 release.
Essentially it is a static site with two dynamic sections – news (handled by Txp out-the-box) and events (zem_event plugin). Events functionality is used within some static pages to manage items like meetings and other time-based content. A couple of minor issues to sort out with RSS feeds and that sort of time-based content!
Outside content is pulled in using simplepie and vdh_flickr.
We also commissioned a ‘file replace’ feature that involved some refactoring of the file code. Multiple authors are now able to easily update PDFs that change regularly, such as forms.
It’s not a massive site – but so far contains 560 pages, 590 images and 690 files. Quite a few categories too. Work continues on adding images to pages and sections.
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#2 2007-07-05 05:39:09
- FireFusion
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Re: local government site
Great stuff. Would you consider submitting it to the Textpattern Featured gallery (see my signature).
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#3 2007-07-07 16:21:03
- SEF
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- Registered: 2007-05-28
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Re: local government site
Really like what you have done, specially the idea of nested sections.
Seems to be running a little slow though, having to wait longer than usual when clicking between pages?
Great job!
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It looks very good, I agree with zero, but what’s with the server? Performance is very bad atm…
Last edited by Slaktad (2007-07-19 10:09:56)
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560= small ???
Nicely designed , impressive work, but right now it’s slow as molasses … is that a textpattern or a web hosting issue?
nuff-respec ::: dannyb
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#7 2007-07-19 23:20:34
- moslib
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Re: local government site
thanks for the feedback
re: speed … I’ve run some simple tests; from Sydney a section page (Library) is loading in 1.2 seconds but it’s between 2.5 and 4.5 seconds from cities in the US & UK
so could be partly Australia’s physical distance from you … but many of the section & subsection pages are heavy with a lot of article-customs; also this txp feels a bit slower than 4.0.5 … haven’t been able to isolate a main cause, probably quite a few contributing factors!
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many of the section & subsection pages are heavy with a lot of article-customs;
I suppose one area could be the number of queries, and you can identify the number of queries by switching from live to debugging and checking the end of the source. That would I guess only affect internal server load though.
so could be partly Australia’s physical distance from you … haven’t been able to isolate a main cause.
The other reason I think may be the large number of individual file requests. Each of these multiplies the ‘distance factor’. Some of them are unavoidable, others such as the different css and js files are a factor of how the site is built and organised with future editing in mind (not necessarily bad as you have a quite extensive site to manage). According to firebug there are some 41 requests for the start page before the slideshow begins (from Germany with a good 6000 DSL connection this took close to 40 seconds before the page shows properly). The number of requests reduces of course after the first visit. Maybe caching would help here?
That said, foreign audiences are probably not the main target audiences. If it responds okay in your municipality, then that’s most important.
Other than that, the site looks attractive and well organised. More municipalities should be like that.
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