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#1 2007-05-24 22:47:53
- xtreme
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- Registered: 2007-05-24
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What is the best structure for my page and how do I do it best?
I have a normal old page with 500 reviews (so far) of books but need a new look and think textpattern is something for me.
I want to have 2-4 pictures on the top of the review related to that review. How do I include this?
Every review is A4 paper long and I think its enough with just one review on each page. What do you think is the best link structure to introduce my reviews and easy to update?
I was thinking of a tree structure (because its 500 links) on the left side with the books as subdir something like this:
Author1
—Book1
—Book2
—Book3
Author2
—Book1
—Book2
—Book3
Author3
—Book1
—Book2
—Book3
What do you think about this or do you have a better idea and how do I do it?
Is there any good plugins you think would be good on my site?
I am new into textpattern so please be clear ;)
Thanks for all help!
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#2 2007-05-25 02:11:13
- Mary
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- Registered: 2004-06-27
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Re: What is the best structure for my page and how do I do it best?
Either by author or by genre is probably a good idea. With so many books, you might want to actually have both: put each book review in an author section, and apply to it a genre category. That should allow you some flexibility when it comes to creating your archive list(s).
As for relating pictures, you could do that where a single review is one article and use my upm_image plugin to have multiple article images (it works well with upm_img_popper). There are a couple other article image plugins as well. You can find them all listed at the resources site.
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Re: What is the best structure for my page and how do I do it best?
Yes, maybe you use categories for the genre and use a custom field for author name. You could use txp:article in combination with txp:if_different to list articles (=book reviews) according to book author. See this FAQ article on making archive pages (lower part of article is analagous to your case). Sort by your custom field for book author first, then by title second and your list will be alphabetical by book author, then alphabetical by book title. You just need to be careful to write the book author names consistently identically.
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