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The Human Museum
I’ve been a loyal user of Wordpress for years, though I dabbled with Textpattern on and off, never quite getting a handle on it but loving the sexy and intuitive back-end. Well I took the plunge into Textpattern territory one more time – and this time it stuck. Congrats to all who brought TXP along, all of your hard work, dedication, and intelligence shows!
Check me out, a Toronto, Canada based blog/photoblog…
Comments and criticism are welcome!
As well, any ideas how to fix my comments? When you preview it it shoots the preview to the top of the page – seems very disorienting.
Last edited by Chaplin (2005-11-14 06:26:02)
“I was born to hustle roses down the avenues of the dead.”-Charles Bukowski
[url=http://thehumanmuseum.com]The Human Museum[/url]
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#2 2005-11-14 07:50:14
- xharine
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- Registered: 2005-01-11
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Re: The Human Museum
I like! Looks classic. And congrats for sticking to txp and discovering it’s beauty.
for the comments issue, maybe you can seek help in the “How do I” forum?
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Thanks xharine, will do – I just wasn’t sure if it ws supposed to do that or not.
“I was born to hustle roses down the avenues of the dead.”-Charles Bukowski
[url=http://thehumanmuseum.com]The Human Museum[/url]
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It’s a really lovely design. Which makes me want to be really picky and suggest that if possible your first line of each post ought not to be indented. I love the way the little ‘information box’ acts in the place of drop-caps for the start and the errant indentation weakens this, a bit, for me.
Great Stuff…
Ed.
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Thanks for the input Ed. The indents are CSS driven. Each paragraph of the post is automatically indented. It was a functional decision for me. This way I never have to worry about doing it manually, I just carriage return at the end of a paragraph.
“I was born to hustle roses down the avenues of the dead.”-Charles Bukowski
[url=http://thehumanmuseum.com]The Human Museum[/url]
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I’ve just spent some time playing with your code, I hope you don’t mind.
It can be done! You would first need to wrap the body of each article in a div so that the paragraph tag comes immeadiatly afterwards. Then you can add this css to bring the initial paragraph of each post back to the start of the line:
div > p:first-child
{
text-indent:0em
}
See The :first-child Pseudo-class here for an example.
Of course this is assuming you think this is needed, if not, at least I’ve learnt something…
Also, you apply an ID (#post) to each article. It really ought to be a class, as IDs should only be set once in a page.
Ed.
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I gave it a whirl, but in the end I think the indent works best. Part of the reason I like the caps on the first line was to set it apart, and maybe because I’m used to it I thought it looked strange without the indent. Thanks for that link though, now we’ve both learned something!
“I was born to hustle roses down the avenues of the dead.”-Charles Bukowski
[url=http://thehumanmuseum.com]The Human Museum[/url]
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I’m very impressed with the elegance of the way you display text and image.
One thing I’d like to see more is integration of the comment area to the page. It could be made to look more like the article title or maybe have the pizzaz of the decorative image at the top. As it stands, everything looks well thought out except for that portion; it’s jarring to scroll down to see it after experiencing such a well laid out page.
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Hi Chaplin. Glad you are liking TXP. I just thought I’d answer your question as no-one else has. If you are using 4.0.2 your preview can now be controlled by the comments_display form template. This is mine:-
<code>
<txp:if_comments_preview>
<txp:comments_preview form=“comments_preview” />
<txp:comments_form preview=“1” />
<txp:else />
<txp:if_comments>
<h3 id=“comment”><txp:comments_count /> Comments for <txp:title /></h3>
</txp:if_comments>
<txp:comments />
<txp:if_comments_allowed>
<txp:comments_form />
</txp:if_comments_allowed>
</txp:if_comments_preview></code>
<br />
In preview mode, this will display the article at the top (though it will mostly be off-screen) followed by the preview, followed by the comment entry form. I use a different form template (comments_preview) for the comment preview that has an added “You’re viewing a preview” type message above it. I don’t bother displaying existing comments in preview but you could simply add the extra tag to the top block. You can try it out at thebombsite. Just to remind you, this only applies to 4.0.2 and your design is excellent. :)
Last edited by thebombsite (2005-11-16 22:40:43)
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#10 2005-11-17 15:38:43
- castanet
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- Registered: 2005-03-19
- Posts: 97
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A great design – made to be read. Well done
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Thanks everyone, and cheers Stuart! @datnguyen – I recently ported the site over from Wordpress. Originally in the wordpress design there was a section between the article and comments dealing with tags. Once I figure out the best way to do this with Textpattern I’ll be fixing that. I agree, for now it needs to be spruced up. Thanks for the input.
Last edited by Chaplin (2005-11-17 15:53:43)
“I was born to hustle roses down the avenues of the dead.”-Charles Bukowski
[url=http://thehumanmuseum.com]The Human Museum[/url]
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