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Personal site re-design (stephentrainor.com)
Would appreciate your thoughts and comments on this re-design:
Not much use of plug-ins at present, but a big thank you to for Rob Sable for rss_superarchive and rss_thumbpop. (The only other one is a very simple plug-in I wrote to generate a link list based on the category value from a selected custom field value – it looked like there used to be a plug-in to do this (bas_links_per_article) but it had disappeared…)
Thanks,
Stephen
London, UK
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Re: Personal site re-design (stephentrainor.com)
I haven’t tested it in any way, but it certainly looks good! Nice header images too.
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#3 2006-09-24 20:27:58
- masa
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Re: Personal site re-design (stephentrainor.com)
Beautiful – very fine, subtle choice of colours!
The <a href=“http://www.stephentrainor.com/2006/08/19/indonesia-nudibranchs-video”>nudibranchs</a> are gorgeous. (I’ve been an admirer of Bill Rudman’s work for many years. Has he ever had his images published as a book?)
How did you go about inserting the green boxes in your Gozo report?
Cheers Martin
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Re: Personal site re-design (stephentrainor.com)
Jakob, Masa – thanks for the feedback, much appreciated.
The green boxes in the Gozo report are just individually styled divs in the body of the article (floated right and coloured in the CSS) – not the most scalable approach, but it works for a small site.
Might it be possible in theory to write separate articles for this content and then to include a txp:article_custom tag within an article itself? Haven’t tried it, for sure…
Never thought I’d encounter anyone who knew about Bill Rudman here in the Textpattern forum!
Regards,
S
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#5 2006-09-25 16:12:00
- alexandra
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Re: Personal site re-design (stephentrainor.com)
Very nice site! Love the videos – colorful underwater world.
How do you insert the quicktime movies? is this a plugin you use or do you do it by hand?
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Re: Personal site re-design (stephentrainor.com)
Thanks Alexandra! QuickTime insert is done via an article form with the source file referenced via a custom field:
<code>
<h1><txp:title /></h1>
<object classid=“clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B”
codebase=“http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab”
height=285 width=480 class=“qt”>
<param name=“src” value=”<txp:custom_field name=“Video_src” />” >
<embed src=”<txp:custom_field name=“Video_src” />” height=285 width=480 type=“video/quicktime” pluginspage=“http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/” class=“qt”
/>
</object>
<txp:body />
<p class=“signature”><txp:author /> · <txp:posted format=”%A, %B %d, %Y, %H:%M” /> · <txp:permlink>Permalink</txp:permlink><txp:if_comments_allowed><txp:if_article_list> · </txp:if_article_list>
<txp:comments_invite />
</txp:if_comments_allowed></p>
</code>
The quicktime embedding is the normal Apple approach – only downside is that it is not standards compliant.
However, the standards-compliant alternative felt just a little too bleeding edge (see the “wrinkles” mentioned in the article)…
S
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#7 2006-09-25 20:02:36
- masa
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Re: Personal site re-design (stephentrainor.com)
Stephen, thanks for the detailed information re the green boxes.
stephent wrote:
Might it be possible in theory to write separate articles for this content and then to include a txp:article_custom tag within an article itself? Haven’t tried it, for sure…
That’s an interesting thought: one article as an include in another one. I’d like to know myself if that can be achieved somehow, or perhaps it could be an idea for a plug-in.
Never thought I’d encounter anyone who knew about Bill Rudman here in the Textpattern forum!
Nudibranchs have always fascinated me, their shapes and colours, so I guess it was inevitable that I came across <a href=“http://www.amonline.net.au/invertebrates/mal/gallery/mollgal6.htm”>Bill’s images</a>.
Cheers Martin
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