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#1 2008-12-20 09:36:47

gavnosis
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From: Milton Keynes, UK
Registered: 2005-03-12
Posts: 151
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Please be gentle... A Parish Council website

My friends in the village wanted a website that several non-experts could maintain, and didn’t want to stump up for any expensive software… I suggested a piece of kit called Textpattern

Anyway, here goes, my very first posting in Lets see yours then :
http://castlethorpe.textdriven.com/

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#2 2008-12-20 09:53:29

Bloke
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From: Leeds, UK
Registered: 2006-01-29
Posts: 11,446
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Re: Please be gentle... A Parish Council website

Very nice. Well laid out, simple and easy to find stuff. Love the curly divider between articles.

The only slight oddities:

  • clicking ‘contact’ in the footer I got a heading saying Contact List, and immediately below that a ‘Read more…’ which I had to click to get the contact-list article to show up. Is that intentional or can it be changed somehow to skip the ‘read more’ step?
  • Under job vacancies there’s a “Within this section” at the top with nothing after it. Is there a way to suppress this if there are no sections? (chh_if_data, maybe?)

But I like the layout. Calming and informative in equal measure. Good stuff.


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#3 2008-12-20 10:05:06

gavnosis
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From: Milton Keynes, UK
Registered: 2005-03-12
Posts: 151
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Re: Please be gentle... A Parish Council website

Thank you Stef/Bloke

  • I guess the easiest way is for me to use a different page template for single-page, static articles, which display the full article rather than the excerpt (Or I could frighten myself and try my hand at some conditional logic again). Leave it with me…
  • I’ve used chh_if_data for the search results, but will try to fit into the category-list sub sections! Thanks

The curly thing was just a dingbat stretched in Fireworks :-)

Danke

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