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PhotoDude.com: The Daily Whim
Hi, name is Reid….
“Hi, Reid”
…it’s been 6 days since I’ve used Movable Type.
Before I get someone to explain what The 12 Step Program is in this support group, I thought I’d introduce myself, and my raw creation.
http://www.photodude.com/daily/
It might look like I know what I’m doing, but it so far has the bare minimum functionality; a home page of recent articles, with permalinks to the archived articles, which can be browsed by assigned category. Of course, I want more than the bare minimum functionality, but I’ll save my problems and questions for a more appropriate place.
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#2 2004-04-05 04:02:04
- rbl
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- Registered: 2004-02-25
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Hi Reid,
Welcome to the Textpattern community!
One thing for sure, you won’t miss the rebuild button =)
And who knows, your presence might be an inspiration for new developments towards photographic heaven in Textpattern ;)
Ricardo
(from 35mm.org)
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Re: PhotoDude.com: The Daily Whim
Reid, your Grand Canyon photos are gorgeous (and put mine to shame)! Great-looking site. Isn’t using Txp a kick?
-Alan
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Hey Reid, I can’t tell from your posts if you’re completely abandoning the idea of importing all your old content into Txp.
As long as the entries exist somewhere, in a text file or a database table, importing is fairly straightforward stuff, akin to baling hay or writing an old coworker just to catch up.
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Thanks for the kind words, Alan, and Ricardo, ‘tis always good to “see” a familiar face. I’ve noticed a few others around. But I don’t know how much of an “inspiration” I can be towards photographic development, given my extremely rudimentary understanding of Textpattern and how to make it hum. I hope to change that soon, once I swat down some beastly clients this week.
Dean, I haven’t abandoned any content that MT didn’t make me abandon a long time ago. I was able to import over 250 entries going back to last September, from a text export (just not the comments that went with them). I first tried the database-to-database script you posted here, but I think my problems with MT were database related, and it failed to import the whole bunch. But, frankly, that was a bit encouraging because it showed me how easy it is to wipe out a Textpattern install and start over. Given my recent experiences, things like that count.
But I do have a very large text file representing 2.5 years of writing that my previous MT blowup sent into the ether, and I will eventually want to try to import that. But for now, I’m pretty content with everything except my own lack of knowledge, and some .htaccess issues. But I’ll post about those later.
Thanks, Dean for making this all available to us, and to the community here for the help I’m sure I’ll be getting.
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Re: PhotoDude.com: The Daily Whim
Seven months and three days after converting to Textpattern, the home page gets a redesign: Slightly Warm, Slightly Worn
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19 months and 13 days after converting to Textpattern, the home page gets another face lift. This time, I’m changing the way I do things. I’m dumping the MT sideblogs I had for links and quotes, and incorporating them via Textpattern sections instead, so they appear intermixed on the home page, instead of chunked off to the sidebar.
I still have some issues I’m trying to figure out about linking and listing section specific categories, but otherwise, it appears to work the way I want.
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Wow, I’ve been using Textpattern two years and two months now. My database has about 3,000 articles, and has grown to 30 MB.
And now there’s a new design: I Call It ‘Sketchy’
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#9 2006-06-04 09:27:30
- alexandra
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- Registered: 2004-04-02
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Hi Reid,
very nice design!! congrats on the 30MB of valuable content :) On and off i read photodude and so i read about your hard times recently. My condolences to you and your family. May your Dad and Fuji RIP.
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#10 2006-06-04 22:42:02
- marios
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Looks fantastic, really sketchy , a plain delight to look at all this stuff. (and read it of course)
If I only would have time to read all those 3000 articles, I’d probably read all of them.
regards
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Thanks for the kind words, Alexandra and Marios. After using Blogger, Greymatter, and Movable Type in the past, I’m still very happy that Textpattern allows me to keep five and a half years of content “under one roof.”
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The Daily Whim has evolved again, this time to accommodate a rebooting of PhotoDude Labs … which I finally converted over from MT 2.x to Textpattern.
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