Admins: Time to Revise the Showcase?

NorfolkGreg · 2024-12-02 13:24:50

Is it me or are the majority of sites in the showcase either dead or no longer using Textpattern?

jakob · 2024-12-02 14:03:18

Yep, I can confirm that Solborg changed their agency, and with it their website, around a year ago. Jon Hicks changed to a flat file site generator a while back too.

NorfolkGreg · 2024-12-02 18:27:59

Hopefully, the Admins can find some good recent examples to replace those currently on the page.

I still am to find time to develop the site I was thinking of transferring to the Textpattern platform. It would really help to me see some large non-blog/journal examples. I’m used to building documentation sites with multiple level menu systems and am trying to get my head around how best to use and rely on Textpattern’s site search and category facilities.

etc · 2024-12-02 18:39:45

Re menus, this will give you the full category tree:

<txp:category_list children wraptag="ul" break="li" />

It can be limited to subtrees if needed.

Sorry for the offtopic.

etc · 2025-11-21 15:51:47

Promotional announce follows: there is still some places ~~left~~ taken in our Showcase section, hurry up before it closes.

bici · 2025-11-21 17:31:37

etc wrote #341329:

Promotional announce follows: there is still some places ~~left~~ taken in our Showcase section, hurry up before it closes.

kudos to Venter for an especially pleasing site

bici · Yesterday 18:04:11

This past January I completed my 80th orbit around the sun. And so I decided to tackle another Textpattern project to mark the occasion. It may well be my swan song.

I decided to try and flesh out the Poulin/Jakob template referenced herein

After installing and completing the bare-bones website on my localhost, I decided to tackle the updating of a website, now doormat, that was originally done in an early version of ExpressionEngine, 3.0.X I believe, and which I thought would lend itself to being updated utilizing Textpattern 4.9.0. But I ran into some limitations in how the blog component was done under EE. I suspect that it used templating and custom fields by section that I was not able to achieve in Textpattern. Or more likely reflection of my limitations of working with Txp. But seeing as that EE site was done long ago it was not as mobile friendly as it could be. So I decided to use a modern bootstrap theme and update the Poulin/Jakob portfolio utilizing that as my template. And added some chops from the original EE site.

With much help from the many friendly and knowledgeable folks on this forum: Jakob, Bloke, phiw13 Jstubbs …and others that have slipped my mind …. I have completed a portfolio website. It is not 100% perfect by any means, but it is over 90% based on the Textpattern tags. There are still a couple of spots to clean up. I have used pageless (snippets) sections, shortcodes, and the new image capabilities.

I was hoping to make this something like a theme that could be download by others for use as the basis as their Portfolio site, but I don’t think I have the skills to achieve that. Plus I have not effectively concatenated the two extra css files into one. There is the main.css file and then I have two others I need to amalgamate. And I have not documented it well enough for others to implement. And gardening season fast approaches and that will consume most of my time after Easter. And she who must be obeyed has many other spring chores lined up for me.

Anyways have a gander at the site . It is somewhat cheeky in places. Overall a tad lighthearted.

I remain grateful for all the assistance provided, and to the fine dev team for providing such an elegant CMS.

File this under: You can teach old dogs new tricks.

Last edited by bici (Yesterday 18:05:44)

jakob · Yesterday 19:28:06

Very cool! Nice and smooth and with your trademark lighthearted voice. A good example of a portfolio site. And you certainly more than fleshed out Marie’s template. I have a bit of catching up to do with you years-wise, but hope I can do as much when I reach such a wise age. I already find gardening a struggle.

Two asides:

Are you also in that photo with Dean? I’d not seen that one before.
Fun fact: I live in the town where the Bauhaus was founded, and their original school is round the corner from me.

Anyway: congratulations!

bici · Yesterday 21:41:56

Thank-you Jakob. While I did build on Marie’s template, it was only possible with your contributions to that theme. And much appreciated.

The photo of Dean, Om, and Matt was taken by Matt and is from Om Malick’s website
It looks to have been taken in Bar Italia in Soho, London––I love the Cynar bottle in the background.

Lovely to hear you live nearby the Bauhaus! I am a big fan of the Bauhaus art movement. Is the orignal school building still occupied?
Walter Gropius wrote: “Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all return to crafts!” to that I would add “Website developers must all return to crafts”

As for our garden — harvest all our vegetables from May to October-November, depending weather. Which requires daily tending by late April on. Our Ox Heart Tomatoes came in at 900-1 kilo – each!

PS Check out Progessive German Graphics 1900-1937 by Leslie Cabarga

jakob · Today 00:15:32

bici wrote #343046:

The photo of Dean, Om, and Matt was taken by Matt and is from Om Malick’s website
It looks to have been taken in Bar Italia in Soho, London.

Many moons ago, I spent half a year working near there too and have been to Bar Italia a few times but my memory of it is hazy.

Lovely to hear you live nearby the Bauhaus! I am a big fan of the Bauhaus art movement. Is the orignal school building still occupied?

Yes, the building(s) the Bauhaus school used then still exist and are now the architecture and design university. But they are not the iconic buildings of the later Bauhaus period. This was the very first phase of the Bauhaus during a politically very turbulent time after the end of the first world war, and much of the population – including the then students – were impoverished and hungry. The buildings they used were built some 15 years earlier by the Belgian architect Henri van der Velde so actual evidence of the Bauhaus is mostly murals and products and paintings, though there are some sculptures and a model house from their inaugural exhibition in 1923. Two years later (now just over 100 years ago) they moved to their iconic building in Dessau about 100 miles away. You can also visit that, along with the tutors’ Meisterhäuser. The school there is also in active use.

Anyhow here are a couple of photos from two weeks ago, and some further links in case you are interested.

As for our garden — harvest all our vegetables from May to October-November, depending weather. Which requires daily tending by late April on. Our Ox Heart Tomatoes came in at 900-1 kilo – each!

You obviously have a longer harvesting period than we do. Our earliest harvests are probably rubarb and maybe onions that have overwintered and tomatoes are in their last throes in September. I don’t get to our allotment space as often as I should – it’s a half-hour bike ride away – so sometimes it’s left to its own devices. We “could do better” on that front.

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