Why Textpattern

Biofobico · 2011-06-12 15:05:52

Els wrote:

Biofobico, you might want to read the contributions that were written following this topic :) It’s a nice overview, because they’re written from developer/designers as well as from users perspective.
You can read the thread to find them, but here they are anyway (in random order): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

Very nice read. Thanks Els :)
Im beginning to understand why you guys love Textpattern so much and those links you provided are very true from what i was able to extract while dissecting Phil’s template :)
And while the admin panel is a bit “ugly” from a designers perspective, the structure of it is perfect to work on.

gour · 2013-01-19 20:32:58

I hope you don’t mind jumping into old thread…

philwareham wrote:

Not sure what that means, since Textpattern essentially is a collection of logical and easy to use tags which you use a building blocks within your website, the final website is as up-to-date as you want to make it. Think of it as lego for PHP.

The more I read about Textpattern, the more I like its concepts. :-)

I always code my sites in the latest HTML5 standards and TXP has never had a problem with that. For example, this site is powered by Textpattern.

I cannot say I’m really a designer guy, so wonder if I can e.g. easily use YAML (or some other) CSS framework and base my theme(s) on it?

colak · 2013-01-19 20:42:51

gour wrote:

I cannot say I’m really a designer guy, so wonder if I can e.g. easily use YAML (or some other) CSS framework and base my theme(s) on it?

yes you can. some of my sites use the 960.gs css framework, and others here use other ones such as blueprint, foundation etc.

philwareham · 2013-01-19 20:51:53

@gour

Yes that’s relatively straightforward. Use their HTML templates as a starting point and gradually strip in the various Textpattern tags you need to make a dynamic site. Any common bits of code (such as headers, footers etc) can also be split out of the page templates into form snippets, making the whole thing easier to maintain.

Some users do just that with various frameworks including Bootstrap, Foundation or even their own dev framework (I built my own over a period of time).

gour · 2013-01-19 21:08:44

philwareham wrote:

Yes that’s relatively straightforward. Use their HTML templates as a starting point and gradually strip in the various Textpattern tags you need to make a dynamic site. Any common bits of code (such as headers, footers etc) can also be split out of the page templates into form snippets, making the whole thing easier to maintain.

Ohh, this is really very nice and gives Textpattern big advantage over Tiki when theming is concerned.

Thanks a lot guys for all your help – really awesome community!!

sochicomputerRU · 2013-01-20 06:31:22

For me it doesn’t matter much which CMS to use, I can shape anything into anything. Initially I just wanted a blog for my site, and come upon Textpattern. I chose textpattern because it looked simple, keyword is SIMPLE. But when it came to inserting my site design into textpattern I understood that textpattern is much more than blog, it is a fully blown CMS, you can build anything on it. I even had plans on rewriting my whole site using textpattern.

Check out my blog, made using textpattern sochicomputer.ru/blog

I offer website development services among with computer repair, network setup, the whole IT spectrum basically. I definitely would use textpattern in my client’s sites when opportunity arises.

Why?

Simplicity on back end. Web developers love to say that site made with CMS can be changed by anyone. Thus far I’ve seen your average Joe user to be able to add only text articles, and even that with minimum formatting. Systems like Drupal and Wordpress are just way to bloated. Textpattern is simple and easy to use on back end. Tags are well documented. I can teach anyone to use textpattern within an hour.

Textpattern is definitely one of my favorite CMS.

gour · 2013-01-20 08:15:35

sochicomputerRU wrote:

I chose textpattern because it looked simple, keyword is SIMPLE.

That’s good point. I’d also add the keywords SPEED and LIGHT remembering how much resources were used on my server when I was evaluating TYPO3.

Textpattern is definitely one of my favorite CMS.

Thank you for your input. Now I’m going to try convert some of my sites to Textpattern, at least, functionality-wise. :-)

gour · 2013-01-21 16:20:13

philwareham wrote:

Yes that’s relatively straightforward. Use their HTML templates as a starting point and gradually strip in the various Textpattern tags you need to make a dynamic site. Any common bits of code (such as headers, footers etc) can also be split out of the page templates into form snippets, making the whole thing easier to maintain.

What do you recommend for handling CSS files, having them in the db or use them externally?

philwareham · 2013-01-21 16:33:06

Externally, definitely. Reasons…

Reading static files is faster than reading from database
Leverage browser caching rules
Can use Sass or LESS when authoring
Can minify using something like YUIcompress (or via Sass/LESS mentioned above)
Can take advantage of any CSS tools in your chosen IDE

gour · 2013-01-21 17:19:48

philwareham wrote:

Externally, definitely. Reasons…

Thanks a lot…many great points.

colak · 2013-01-21 17:25:12

gour wrote:

What do you recommend for handling CSS files, having them in the db or use them externally?

I use them internally but have rvm_css installed which also saves and calls them externally. I just like working under the same interface. Having them just external, it means that you might not be able to edit them if you are somewhere that has no ftp client.

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