Vanderaa.net

tennapel · 2009-09-21 15:08:54

Today we (officialy) launched the first version of the website vanderaa.net

This is the website of Michel van der Aa, a Dutch composer and Film director.

Technically, the highlights is the extensive (reuse) of articles on different pages in diverse constellations. I’ve drawn heavily on the ability of the textpattern to gather information based upon keywords, categories and the section awareness of tags.

This means both content and templates are atomized: cut up in logical small chunks that are being assembled section by section, using a template per section and drawing in forms with small bits of display logic.

I’ve used wet_link for the admin side of being able to easily add cross-site hyperlinks, jnm_audio to display those georgious flash players and I’ve added a few plugins to handle select box interactions and give a few additional tags to mark up articles to split them in columns.

For me, it’s the first website ever done in Textpattern. I’ve got stuck a few times, but posting questions to this forum has helped a lot — thanks to everyone who responded. It’s been a major effort. The site looks simple, but there is an awful lot of content stored in the database.
Textpattern is here to stay, it’s got a nice small footprint, it’s clever in its approach and it is fast!

els · 2009-09-21 16:16:03

Very interesting! Looks like a great use of Txp’s capabilities. Still trying to figure out how you did things ;) For instance, is this an individual article page or a category page? It could have been done either way, but I’m guessing it’s a category page…

and I’ve added a few plugins

Existing or custom ones?

It’s been a major effort.

I can see that :) Hats off!

mrdale · 2009-09-21 16:47:01

very nice. small critique.

I find the bottom part of the main banner (bottoms of “Michel van der Aa”) kinda unnecessary and distracting. I think it’d be stronger if you just had the top part of the truncated text above the nav.

Otherwise, great site!

tennapel · 2009-09-21 17:23:52

Els wrote:

Very interesting! Looks like a great use of Txp’s capabilities. Still trying to figure out how you did things ;) For instance, is this an individual article page or a category page? It could have been done either way, but I’m guessing it’s a category page…

It is an individual article page. The main text below ‘description’ is the individual article, alle the other items are article_custom tags, where either the category or the keywords match the category assigned to the individual article.

Els wrote:

and I’ve added a few plugins
Existing or custom ones?

Both, like I stated, the wet_link/wet_peex on the admin side (which I still think should be standard CMS functionality!) and jnm_audio. Also I had to add some stuff to make multi-column layouts in one article possible and to connect HTML-select boxes to the <txp:article /> and <txp:article_custom> tags.

I have been toying with smd_query plugin too, but in the end I did not need that, all I wanted could be handled with custom tags, some trial and error and some programming on my part.

What I really, really applaud textpattern for is the way you can nest tags in tags, like this:

<txp:article limit="1">
<h2>Some header</header>
<txp:article limit="10000" form="some_form" />
</txp:article>

If there are no articles at all the whole block won’t be shown. It’s so simple, and no if-then-else constructions needed.

tennapel · 2009-09-21 17:25:05

mrdale wrote:

very nice. small critique. ….

Maybe it’s a good thing to say that I’m not the designer, I’m not capable of turning out anything looking as great as that site!

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