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#1 2007-07-08 05:31:05
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mulicolumn posts
How to make a conclusion of posts (small multi-block)
as on a site: http://www.uxmag.com/
thanks.
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Make div floating unto each others, and into each div the article’s title, category and excerpt.
On a side note, that this is a joke… “User experience is everything.™” and one can’t even does a small text resize without losing all readability.
Last edited by Jeremie (2007-07-08 05:36:59)
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#3 2007-07-08 06:11:47
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Re: mulicolumn posts
thanks.
maybe Textpattern have such template(theme)?
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not that i know of. here is one of the sites you could look for templates.
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I don’t think there’s template just like that.
But that’s the beauty of Textpattern, themes/templates aren’t needed. Just code the appropriate HTML & CSS, exactly the way you like, and TXP will handle the rest.
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Themes/templates aren’t needed. Just code the appropriate HTML & CSS, exactly the way you like
Hey, tell that to all the guys involved in TXP theming (see Textgarden and Textplates). Do you think everyone is required to have good design skills and know HTML/CSS well to be able to use TXP?
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Right now yes I do. To be more precise, I think TXP is quite a good tool to publish and somewhat manage web articles if one can code in HTML and CSS its own website (writing HTML & CSS as almost nothing to do with design, even web design… those are just language, one can design in English, French or Farsi it doesn’t matter).
If one can’t write HTML and CSS even at a basic level (meaning one doesn’t need to be fluent in those language, the day to day use of TXP doesn’t require HTML or CSS skill at all) I don’t think TXP is right for him.
In a possible future, when if there’s a theme mechanism with import/export tools and the whole thing, then yes. It’s far to be the case right now, and such a feature isn’t even planned (and such a feature isn’t easy to do, given the way TXP works).
Last edited by Jeremie (2007-07-08 09:10:06)
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OK, then tell that to tens of thousands of people who use already-made TXP templates for their websites.
This sounds very similar to the common statement “If one has physical disabilities, it’s his own problem – the Web is not right for him” that plagued developers community until web standards movement arise.
Textpattern is not only a development tool, it is also a great publishing tool. Thanks to tremendous effort of template creators, so many people that are not into development can enjoy great TXP publishing capabilities (installing a template is usually a matter of some copy/pasting). Claiming that templates aren’t needed is an expression of total disrespect to both their developers and their users.
Last edited by mourner (2007-07-08 11:37:43)
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mourner wrote:
OK, then tell that to tens of thousands of people who use already-made TXP templates for their websites.
I believe I just did tell that to the hundreds of people who have share the pain of using a “TXP template”.
This sounds very similar to the common statement “If one has physical disabilities, it’s his own problem – the Web is not right for him” that plagued developers community until web standards movement arise.
Nice troll. Another try?
Textpattern is not only a development tool
TXP isn’t intended to be a development tool, nor a development framework (framework make more sense in this context).
, it is also a great publishing tool.
It’s intended to be.
Thanks to tremendous effort of template creators, so many people that are not into development can enjoy great TXP publishing capabilities (installing a template is usually a matter of some copy/pasting).
That’s a nice dream. Just for starter and close this ridiculous idea, 100% of the published template are English only, so that will reduce the use to the small, tiny portion of the worldwide population who speaks English well enough to open pages and pages of computer code and localize it.
You want to have some idea of what it feels like? Open a template in various languages you know nothing of (let’s say… a Cantonese Smarty template, or a Farsi RoR one, or a Euskal Herria SPIP one) and try to use it. See ya in several months at your new mental institution…
Claiming that templates aren’t needed is an expression of total disrespect to both their developers and their users.
First, that wasn’t my claim. Second, I have a rough basic understanding of Textpattern, it’s community, and the web… I think I can babble an opinion on this :-|
Last edited by Jeremie (2007-07-08 12:28:10)
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#10 2007-07-08 23:37:29
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Re: mulicolumn posts
Guys… Back to the question at hand: how to create multi-column posts.
jcb_columnize may do what you want.
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It’s not multi-column post as I understand it, it’s just a matter of creating floating boxes and placing things in it.
Very roughly, in line with that’s displayed on the website quoted in the original question, that would be something like (quite roughly, from the top of my head):
Article in a box form:
<div class="articleInaBox">
<txp:permlink>
<span class="articleInaBox-cat">In <txp:category1 title="1"/></span>
<span class="articleInaBox-title"><txp:title/></span>
<span class="articleInaBox-excerpt"><txp:excerpt /></span>
</txp:permlink>
</div>And in the page:
<txp:article listform="Article in a box" />And that’s pretty much all for TXP’s end. After that, it’s CSS.
Very roughly:
div.articleInaBox {
margin:3px;
padding:3px;
width:15em;
height:15em;
border:1px solid black;
float:left;
}And the various little styles inside the div box (starting with display:block; for the spans).
Last edited by Jeremie (2007-07-09 14:16:22)
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