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Have a look at thriftmac
Hello from Canada.
Basically, what we have here is a listing of recommended freeware for Mac OS X. I’ve seen lots of forum posts and blog entries where people list their favourite freeware, so I thought a website devoted to the subject would be of interest.
I’m happy with the site for the most part. But to be honest, I’m so new at Textpattern, I’m not sure it’s even working properly. For example, shouldn’t articles be appearing individually at some point?
Any suggestions for improvements would be appreciated. I’d like to make this site as interactive as possible. A forum? Star ratings? Polls?
Thanks!
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I’m getting lots of looks, but no comments! Please comment, even if you think it’s boring, ugly, pointless … whatever. I really want to know what you think so I can make improvements.
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It took me a little bit of time to find the top navigation. It just didn’t jump out to me. Once I found the top nav is was pretty easy to navigate through.
It does seem like you are always getting taken to list pages though, even when you link to an individual article. For example http://www.thriftmac.com/typetrainer4mac What url scheme are you using?
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> qrayg wrote:
> Well, the site doesn’t validate. You might want to fix that.
That I can do.
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> hakjoon wrote:
> It took me a little bit of time to find the top navigation. It just didn’t jump out to me. Once I found the top nav is was pretty easy to navigate through.
Was it because you were expecting to find it on the side? Or was it more the fault of the color scheme?
> It does seem like you are always getting taken to list pages though, even when you link to an individual article. For example http://www.thriftmac.com/typetrainer4mac What url scheme are you using?
I’d like to fix that, but I’m not sure how to answer your question.
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> jdueck wrote:
> Just seems very….un-mac-like
That hurts. The last thing I want to do is turn off fellow mac people. Care to elaborate?
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mwr wrote:
Was it because you were expecting to find it on the side? Or was it more the fault of the color scheme?
I think it was mostly that it didn’t seem attached to the banner, the color scheme made it seem like empty space above the banner. In Firefox it is very muted with the gray looking like the default browser background gray.
What url scheme are you using?
I’d like to fix that, but I’m not sure how to answer your question.
It seems like the clean urls are not resolving correctly since it seems to always be sending you to article_lists. are you using <txp:article_custom /> as your main article tag by chance? In the individual article url if you were using <txp:article /> it should only give you one article not a list. Maybe check out this FAQ on article_custom
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> It seems like the clean urls are not resolving correctly since it seems to always be sending you to article_lists. are you using ……
I’m using, for example, txp:article_custom sortby=“Title” sortdir=“asc” section=“Games”
It’s so the list will sort alphabetically.
Later ….
I did some experimenting and can see that this is the problem. But I really did want them in alphabetical order. Is there some way I can work around this? Sorry if I’m asking these questions in the wrong forum.
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Try this FAQ.
How do I use a different page layout for individual articles and article lists?
You probably just want to add some <txp:if_article_list /> and <txp:if_individual_article> tags to your page template. Use the <txp:article_custom /> inside <txp:if_article_list /> and <txp:article /> in <txp:if_individual_article>. So something like this.
<code>
<txp:if_article_list>
<txp:article_custom />
</txp:if_article_list>
<txp:if_individual_article>
<txp:article />
</txp:if_individual_article>
</code>
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> hakjoon wrote:
> You probably just want to add …
I just tried it out, and it works great. Thanks for your help. I’ll also work on improving the color scheme for the top navigation.
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