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#1 2008-03-21 09:03:14
- zeusdidit
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- Registered: 2007-10-16
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http://www.makeupbycelso.com -evolution.3
First a great big thanks to the forums including Mary Fredborg, Ruud, Colak, Threshold State, Rob Sable, Zero, Obeewan, Gocom, Maniqui, the people who wrote the Wiki for Textpattern and just the entire open-source community for really helping me build something that I’ve always wanted to have and wasn’t able to find anything even rudimentarily close until I found Textpattern.
Again, I feel like I’ve been working on this site for so long and I can’t thank everyone enough. I’m literally shedding a tear when I think of what TXP and everyone here helped me accomplish and I send a gargantuan hug to everyone.
My first goal was to have print magazine. Simple enough but costly. About $8k US to produce with paper for 50k copies. So then my wife suggested, and I quote, “Dude, why don’t you just create an e-zine? Those are so much better. Don’t you do websites?” I looked at her, perplexed thinking how lame and ugly the one’s I’ve seen are and said, “One day.” That was it. I later applied at some magazine and created http://portfolio.zeusdidit.com to establish a ‘magazine look’ persay to at least show the magazine what ‘could be done’. After not getting hired, the portfolio site remained, but the prospect of building the e-zine lapsed in my mind. I didn’t see profit, couldn’t find a working CMS, coding was iffy, applications crashed over and over, updates messed things up for me, the works… I was tired. My brother mentioned to me something textpattern, but then he moved on to Wordpress -and I followed. He’s a genius so I figured ok. This is good. But then I didn’t feel like I was ‘coding’, more like I was just barely interfacing with the application. So I decided at that point to create some server tests. I installed drupal, joomla, wordpress, and textpattern to see one thing. Who would bring up the search engine content first based off of their intial install. Nothing to complex. Each had the opportunity to get scoured by Google and return results. First one to show up using a predefined search would win after making sure each had the same content. Textpattern was the first to return the result.
So ok, now I’ve determined best SEO, but that’s just part of this. Since I installed all these, I messed around to see what the backend of each did and felt. Again, TXP kicked ass. I finally felt like I could control the logic of the pages, not to mention that I could have multiple layouts if needed.
So then I decided that I would attempt one last thing. Make the site at least somewhat feel like it’s a magazine -at least the cover.
Celso says to me, “You need to put the site up -now” and I say, “It’s not ready.” and it’s not. Like the web, magazines, cars prescriptions, and style it will continually evolve. I’m hoping to add full page, quarter page and half page ads at some point, change the layouts of the pages and more as I dream of what’s next and how I can make this as useful as possible.
Thank you all so very much.
Cheers,
Zeus Perez
This is a list of all the plug-ins, including which are being used, but regardless they are installed and I feel it’s important to note everyone’s hard work in case I missed any mentions. And I’ll be adding this to that site too, once I build the ‘credit’ page.
an7_img – Iaian7 – John Einselen – 0.4 – Set of tags for image display and integration of the Litebox script – Yes
glx_admin_image – Patrick Kollitsch – 2007.1 – Yes – Short description – No –
hak_article_image – Patrick Woods – 0.6.3 – – Extended Article Image tag – No –
jad_metadata – Joel Dueck – 10.3 – – Output meta description and keyword tags – Yes –
Postmaster – Ben Bruce – 0.4.4 – – Simple email-on-post/newsletter manager for Textpattern – No –
rss_auto_excerpt – Rob Sable – 0.5 – – Automatic article excerpts – No –
rss_live_search – Rob Sable – 0.7 – – Live search. – Yes –
upm_file – Mary Fredborg – 0.3.1 – – Associate single or multiple files with an article. – No –
upm_image – Mary Fredborg – 0.6 – – More powerful image display. – Yes –
upm_img_popper – Mary Fredborg – 1.3.5 – – Minimal image selector. – Yes –
wet_article_thumb – Robert Wetzlmayr – 0.4 – – Displays the thumbnail for an article’s image with an optional link to the article. – Yes -
wow_gallery – Bjoern Schwenzer – 0.6 – – Manage your image galleries with powerful backend and txp tag functionality – auto-thumbnailing, image transformations, captions, ordering, gallery-viewer included. REQUIRES wow_gallery_lib PLUGIN! – Yes
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wow_gallery_lib – Bjoern Schwenzer – 0.6 – – Library for wow_gallery plugin. Make sure plugin is active. – Yes –
wow_menu – Bjoern Schwenzer, Andrei Zinca – 1.02 – – Allows you to display categories as a menu tree of list elements, and to apply a custom order to all items as well as hiding tree elements or displaying just a part of the tree, giving you full menu control. No hacks/mods required. – Yes –
zem_article_image – zem – 0.1 – – Enhancements to the built-in Textpattern image tags – Yes –
zem_contact – Threshold State – 0.6 – – Flexible email contact/feedback form – Yes -
Last edited by zeusdidit (2008-04-02 01:24:55)
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