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Re: Packt Publishing Open Source CMS awards
Destry wrote:
Oh, and I’m in the Txp camp that likes the system as is…as a clean slate, and not a push-the-one-button-to-inflate-instant-design approach.
That’s because you are a designer :)
Both Joomla! and Drupal are harder systems to master than Textpattern, that’s a given, But what they each have is an easy way for users to ditch the default look and pick a new style for their site. As they become more acquainted with the inner workings, they either modify the look themselves or pay someone to do a fresh new style. I’ve seen this time and time again, go ask Andreas Viklund how much extra work his templates have brought him.
That is all I’m trying to say, users want to pick a different look for their apps no matter what they run, whether it’s Winamp or Wordpress. If they can’t, they’ll go elsewhere and who loses out?
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hakjoon wrote: Now I’m all excited about this book.
There will be a review at the TXP Mag, when it’s made available to us, but I suspect most community folks will buy a copy anyway just for the nostalgia of it.
The one thing we have to remember is that Drupal and Joomla are a lot older then TXP.
Yep, that’s the other key point, which is what I meant by “seniority.”
And Drupal specially is a huge swiss army knife. As flexible as TXP is it does not do everything Drupal can do yet.
This is starting to circle back to similar discussions in the past. Some folks don’t ever want to see Txp go that “Swiss army knife” way. I’m one. If that stuff is available as plugins, fine, but I hope for a clean, lightweight, native Txp until the cows come home. I’d rather build-up (add-on) as each project requires it than have to routinely strip down every time.
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Destry wrote:
This is starting to circle back to similar discussions in the past.
We seem to do that a lot.
Some folks don’t ever want to see Txp go that “Swiss army knife” way. I’m one. If that stuff is available as plugins, fine, but I hope for a clean, lightweight, native Txp until the cows come home. I’d rather build-up (add-on) as each project requires it than have to routinely strip down every time.
To be fair Drupal takes that approach. The base install is fairly minimal and the other functionality (forums, multi user blogs, image galleries etc) are all distributed as modules.
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hakjoon wrote: To be fair Drupal takes that approach.
T’is true. I like Drupal, but nevertheless I just never seem to have a need for it.
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I am happy with all the traction Joomla gets from this award ;-)
As long as Joomla has to fix such basic issues, my clients are happy with their Textpattern powered sites and the exposure on the search engines they get for free, while others are running circles round this topic.
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hakjoon wrote: Swift3D is cool though. Are you using the standalone one or one of the plugins for Max and LW?
The standalone has progressed by leaps and bounds, that’s what i’m using. Most of what I use it for is direct importing into Flash 8, of animated 3-d objects, logos, and the like. It makes me look brilliant without ever having to open up 3d-max :)
destry wrote: It’s got books, man, lots of books (and seniority), which would suggest people are willing to read good docs to learn something if those docs are available.
I would agree, but I would also argue that Drupal needs lots of books, because the learning curve is so steep.
Bert wrote: But what they each have is an easy way for users to ditch the default look and pick a new style for their site.
Exactly why they are so well received. someone here has already made an easy themer, we just need to dissect it and make it into an admin side plugin that rips the theme, packages up the pages, forms, styles, plugins and makes an ‘executable.’
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