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cartophobic -- a photolog
I have designed my second Web site completely out of Textpattern. It is called cartophobic. I use it as a photoblog, using some of the basic tools included with Textpattern and a few plug-ins.
The first site I designed is never mind her. It’s my blog/portfolio site with only the journal and archives done in Textpattern. The rest was by hand and with Gallery 2.
The basic problems I have with cartophobic is with navigation. If you have any suggestions, please let me know because I would appreciate any input.
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Re: cartophobic -- a photolog
I find navigation difficult in both sites. A Recent Articles list would help. You have a link to previous on the carto home page but no link from the funeral image page to anywhere else, so I suggest a simple link to next and link to previous on each page would help a lot. You can always style these, eg have arrows instead of the text and put it at the top, and have plain text version at the bottom, or wherever you like, but you definitely need to help visitors find what you’ve got.
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Re: cartophobic -- a photolog
zero wrote:
You have a link to previous on the carto home page but no link from the funeral image page to anywhere else, so I suggest a simple link to next and link to previous on each page would help a lot.
I’ve tried doing that with both the default form and the single form as well as the default page and archive (single) page. I’ve used the following:
<p><txp:older>« <txp:link_to_prev><txp:prev_title /></txp:link_to_prev></txp:older>
<txp:newer> | <txp:link_to_next><txp:next_title /></txp:link_to_next> »</txp:newer></p>
It only works for the home page, but not on individual pages. That is one I’ve tested out for the last week and I haven’t gotten it to work on all pages.
As for a recent articles menu for NHM, I don’t update that often, so having that actually dates it more than it helps, but I do use it for the reviews section.
Thanks very much for looking at both of them.
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#4 2008-01-25 16:39:56
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Re: cartophobic -- a photolog
tamaradulva wrote:
I’ve tried doing that with both the default form and the single form as well as the default page and archive (single) page. I’ve used the following:
<p><txp:older>« <txp:link_to_prev><txp:prev_title /></txp:link_to_prev></txp:older> <txp:newer> | <txp:link_to_next><txp:next_title /></txp:link_to_next> »</txp:newer></p>It only works for the home page, but not on individual pages. That is one I’ve tested out for the last week and I haven’t gotten it to work on all pages.
Try something like this:
<txp:if_individual_article>
<p><txp:link_to_prev><txp:prev_title /></txp:link_to_prev>
<txp:link_to_next><txp:next_title /></txp:link_to_next></p>
<txp:else />
<p><txp:older>« </txp:older>
<txp:newer> »</txp:newer></p>
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That works well with the single entries. Thanks for your help.
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