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#151 2008-06-26 05:09:21
Re: Marketing TXP
Q & A:
- From all those who expressed their concerns here about Txp getting too little PR hum: Who owns a media outlet, be it a blog or even a static geocities page? Now, how many publicly visible posts (forum posts don’t count) have you done since this discussion started to express your interest in Textpattern and its capabilities, or, dare I say, your benefits for a specific project you built? Textpattern has gotten bad press in the past which enjoyed quite a circulation. Where’s the good press (or whatever, any news is good news, as long as it links to textpattern.com like so: CMS)? Folks, publish! Make waves!
- ad Textpattern.com redesign: Kevin Potts has offered to work on the wording and content structure, and is doing so at the moment. milkshake will provide wireframes, Matthew Smith will provide visual design, we even have a choice of HTML/CSS artists. That’s the current state. Things aren’t finished in a week’s time frame, but I will direct this project to an end.
Anecdotal evidence for item 1: Ralf Gralle, once renowned as the creator of a trackback hack for Txp, replied on twitter re tag parsing
Junge, TXP wird auch mit jedem Release unästhetischer http://tinyurl.com/643ggf Was für ein Gefrickel! (Boy, TXP is getting more unaesthetic with every release. What a fuss!)
He addressed 214 followers.
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#152 2008-06-26 06:39:30
Re: Marketing TXP
Edit: Nothing to see here, go on, go on.
Last edited by maniqui (2008-06-26 15:28:02)
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#153 2008-06-26 07:03:06
Re: Marketing TXP
I stand corrected: The members of the visual design team are: Matthew Smith, plus …, …
Jon Hicks unsurprisingly didn’t offer to contribute.
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#154 2008-06-26 07:43:54
Re: Marketing TXP
Touchée!
I’m totally ashamed and already regretting the post.
I was about to send a PM to wet with the whole post before posting it here… but then, I felll like I needed some soap opera moments in my own life and come here and post that rant.
No more postings from me, at least, not at 4am when feeling like I’m holding a truth… in a soap opera.
Time to sleep.
Oh, I probably missed this announcement
I’m ashamed ad eternam: I’ve read the following post by wet the day he made it. Forgive me, wet.
wet wrote:
Those who have offered to contribute, so far:
- Kevin Potts: marketing-compliant verbiage and world-domination strategy
- Matthew Smith: a beautiful, compelling site design aka PSD mockups
- milkshake: visitor funneling wireframes
- maniqui: markup with a style
- zero: everything else, plus taming the Googlebot
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#155 2008-06-26 08:26:18
Re: Marketing TXP
Bravo! Looking forward to it. :)
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#156 2008-06-26 13:44:14
Re: Marketing TXP
Julian, just to ease some of your fears Matthew is very good to work with. I talk with him often and his passion for TXP has not waned. He and Stuart are putting some good work with TXP out there. I know he’s also been communicating with Wet fairly regularly.
Unfortunately I think his workload has eaten away a lot of his forum time.
On wet’s comment about writing, I think this is a huge point. I was asking my designer co-workers why they chose WP since TXP is much more targeted to them. Their answer was activity around the project, so they knew they could find solutions to their problems.
This forum is very active but outside of here TXP tends to only get coverage when bad things are happening. We should really work on changing that if we can. More web activity around TXP means more exposure. I’m as guilty as anyone about this. Actually Peter is probably the only one that can’t accused of slacking on the writing.
All I know is that I have been using TXP in some form or another since before Gamma 1.19 and periodically I flirt with other tools but I always come back here, I don’t know why (I think it’s all that wasabi) but I love this community and I still love the tool, and all I can say is I’m pretty excited about all that is going on right now. This has been the most positive “fix something in TXP” thread yet.
(and yes I know Julian said wabi-sabi not wasabi)
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#157 2008-06-26 14:59:36
Re: Marketing TXP
I wasn’t aware about Matthew either, haven’t spoken to him for a couple of weeks or so, but if he is offering to do the design then I would be perfectly happy to do a “live” mock-up from his PSDs which would include TXP coding, XHTML and CSS. I’m am very used to working with him in this way. I could host it temporarily in a subdirectory of thebombsite so everyone can have a good play with it.
I should reiterate Patrick’s point that Matthew is a busy lad these days which is probably why he doesn’t get to the forum too often.
Stuart
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#158 2008-06-26 15:37:32
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Patrick, Stuart.
Yes, I know both of you often work with Matthew and for sure you know the quality of his work. I behaved like a troll. I’ve edited my post (deleted its content) .
I must avoid this kind of friction next time.
Just to switch the focus to another direction (don’t look at me, still ashamed):
The Warhorse is willing to help not just with the TxB but with the copy of the main site.
I’m not sure if “copy” means exactly “the text” (and “to make it cool”), but I like the way the Warhorse writes and express ideas (and explain ideas from others), so +1 for him.
He may be the cure for the content-delay syndrome.
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#159 2008-06-26 15:42:31
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And just to show willing, I’m ready whenever you lot are.
Stuart
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#160 2008-06-26 17:51:46
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hakjoon wrote:
On wet’s comment about writing, I think this is a huge point. I was asking my designer co-workers why they chose WP since TXP is much more targeted to them.
Not to bitch on others work – but: WP disables desktop blogging in WP 2.6 (due July), and receives: praises for establishing a more secure platform. Guys: Make More Waves! Publish! Tweet! Blog!
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#161 2008-06-26 18:33:53
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Re: Marketing TXP
It’s disabled by default, as it should have always been, as opposed to removed completely.
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#162 2008-06-26 20:31:00
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Good pointer Robert. I was planning to write something about TXP when 4.0.7 hit the streets but WP’s consistent insecurity deserves a mention or two or maybe a hundred mentions or two methinks. I’m sure they’d bitch about TXP if we had similar problems.
Mary – I think the real point is why do they think it is insecure? Is it the usual rushed-out coding? And let’s face it, whether they consider themselves a CMS or not, they are certainly a major blogging tool and shouldn’t desktop blogging be a part of such a tool by default?
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#163 2008-06-26 21:38:10
Re: Marketing TXP
When you install a typical linux distribution, they don’t have all services up-and-running and listening on ports either by default (at least not nowadays). It’s not because they know it’s insecure, but to lower the risks when an security bug is discovered.
Of course, it doesn’t matter for those that actually use XMLRPC, because those people will have it enabled anyway, but… those that don’t use it, how many would actually disable it? And of those people, how many neglect to update regularly? Disabling by default protects these users.
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#164 2008-06-26 21:57:53
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But by way of reversing that aren’t we going to be shipping xmlrpc by default with 4.0.7? How come we feel safe enough to do that and they don’t? Of course I am fully aware that if you don’t require the facility you can remove the folder but how many will do that?. And this is totally OT.
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#165 2008-06-27 02:42:30
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