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redbot · 2008-09-21 14:30:56

jstubbs wrote:

I edited the promo space a little to add redbot’s suggestion, and also edited the other bullet points.

Thank you, I like it.
BTW Another thing… I don’t want to be a pain and I’m not totally sure but I think maybe this sentence:

Textpattern makes it simple to create and edit your templates and CSS – you decide how your site will look

Could be replaced with something along the line of:

Textpattern lets you gain total control over your templates and CSS – you decide how your site will look

IMHO it is useful to make clear that you are not forced to use tables for presentational purposes.
I know it seems a little out of time in 2008 but this was one of the main reasons I started to use txp some years ago (at the time I used Mambo which was heavily table-based and very complex to mod) …and if I’m not wrong Joomla did still output some hardcoded tables untill some months ago.
Once again, this is only an opinion and I’m not sure it makes sense.

ruud · 2008-09-21 14:39:03

Then I’d change this:

Textpattern lets you gain total control over your templates and CSS – you decide how your site will look

into:

Textpattern gives you total control over your templates and CSS – you decide how your site will look

redbot · 2008-09-21 14:50:10

ruud wrote:

Then I’d change this:

Textpattern lets you gain total control over your templates and CSS – you decide how your site will look

into:

Textpattern gives you total control over your templates and CSS – you decide how your site will look

Yes I agree, my english sucks ;)

jstubbs · 2008-09-21 19:58:20

ruud wrote:

Then I’d change this:

Textpattern lets you gain total control over your templates and CSS – you decide how your site will look

into:

Textpattern gives you total control over your templates and CSS – you decide how your site will look

Your wish is my command – thanks Ruud and redbot. Edited and saved.

jstubbs · 2008-09-21 20:10:45

Peter – re the feature list – it looks good but I would suggest some slight editing for consistency of copy and perhaps a couple of additions in plugins, since this is a major feature and there are only 3 points.

I can’t edit this today though (assuming you don’t mind), maybe tomorrow – Monday night.

As an aside, what are the major features of TXP? We all have our own favourite feature and personal dislike (I don’t like how difficult it is to get comments working just right). What should we be yelling about most loudly?

zero · 2008-09-21 20:46:20

I’ve no objections to you editing the feature list, Jonathan. Please try not to duplicate anything written under the Reasons to love Textpattern.

Major Features? Mine would be stability, flexibility and that there’s always a solution to a problem.

Re the promo space – there are now 7 items. I liked it more with 5 because it was more direct and readable, meaning I am much less inclined to read 7 items but am happy to read 5. Sorry, Redbot, but although your suggestions are good, I think they spoilt it a bit. But I don’t have a better way yet. Perhaps it’s just me though, because only one item will be seen at any one time. But if we stay with 7, which items should go last because they might not be read? It’s the same with features or reasons to love txp, the most important points should go first so they’ve more chance of being read. So it comes round to Jonathan’s question again – what are the major features of txp?

jstubbs · 2008-09-21 21:13:29

Peter, I will take a look at your features page tomorrow. Whatever I edit, we can always turn back so nothing is lost :-)

I agree that 5 items is cleaner, but TXP has a lot of features that are not apparent on the current homepage. Assuming a first time user lands on the homepage, he/she would most likely want to see very quickly what are the major attributes of our CMS. Looking at it that way, 7 items that are more clearly described is better than 5 items poorly described.

Besides, until we have a better idea of the design Mathew is coming up with, there seems little point in over working this issue. It will be easier to finalise the text once we know the design – everything will just take care of itself.

My favourite feature of TXP? Difficult. Flexibility, elegance and fast site deployment, upgrading is easy, plugins are incredible. Dislikes: Changing the comments appearance is a little difficult, and I don’t like that the UI is not more consistent (based on the Article tab, which has multi-article edit, unlike Sections, Images etc).

redbot · 2008-09-22 09:24:27

zero wrote:

Re the promo space – there are now 7 items. I liked it more with 5 because it was more direct and readable, meaning I am much less inclined to read 7 items but am happy to read 5. Sorry, Redbot, but although your suggestions are good, I think they spoilt it a bit. But I don’t have a better way yet. Perhaps it’s just me though, because only one item will be seen at any one time. But if we stay with 7, which items should go last because they might not be read?…

Actually I’m following this thread quite superficially because I’m really too busy these days. I just popped in to say that a specific phrase didn’t read too good for me.
Apart from this I absolutely don’t want to complicate things and I trust you all can come to the right solution.
Keep on with the good work!

thebombsite · 2008-09-22 12:57:33

Jonathan – the images, files, links, categories and comments tabs all have multi-edit facilities in 4.0.7 similar to the articles tab though obviously with different options dependent on the tab and I’m assuming that the new design won’t be ready before the new release. (You mentioned sections but I think you meant categories.)

squaredeye · 2008-09-24 17:27:08

Its a bit difficult to figure out how close we are to a final (ish) solution before I jump into starting to lay this out. Can someone give me an idea of the level of transition that things are in? Are we nailing things down? The home page content looks great btw.

jstubbs · 2008-09-24 17:49:15

Mathew, I think its best to just go ahead and start. Content is pretty final, we are just waiting for the next stage of the design before polishing anything. As indicated by Bloke and others, we can also start on a dev site if the developers and designer (you!) think we are ready.

squaredeye · 2008-09-24 17:51:48

Jstubss,
Very good. I’ll give it another go and have something for you all by Friday :)

Matthew

Textpattern CMS

Textpattern CMS support forum

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