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http://amps.zugster.net - vacuum tube D.I.Y. site
I just completed an overhaul of a personal site devoted to one of my many hobbies, building vacuum tube guitar amplifiers. I’ve had this site up since 2002, when it started as just a single page, edited in Front Page, and using table-based layout. I’d played with TextPattern about 2 years ago, and I’d been wanting to rebuild the whole thing in a more flexible, blog-capable format for a few years. At home just after Christmas this year I finally got around to doing just that.
I tried to not stray too far from the feel of the old site, while improving the maintainability. This was also my first time working with XHTML and CSS. I’m a software engineer by trade, and with a couple of weeks of learning and playing with it, I think it is So Cool. I’m sure as I get better at it I’ll continue to tweak the site endlessly – I’d like to integrate a txp-based image gallery instead of relying on Gallery, among other improvements.
Last edited by aalpern (2006-01-10 01:50:20)
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#2 2006-01-10 01:46:58
- nardo
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Re: http://amps.zugster.net - vacuum tube D.I.Y. site
nice work!
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#3 2006-01-18 06:33:38
- Steerpike
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Re: http://amps.zugster.net - vacuum tube D.I.Y. site
Are the headings (technical, projects, etc) on the left side ‘sections’, in txp lingo? And the items below, are they articles assigned to the sections? If not, what is the structure?
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Re: http://amps.zugster.net - vacuum tube D.I.Y. site
> nardo wrote:
> nice work!
Thank you!
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Re: http://amps.zugster.net - vacuum tube D.I.Y. site
> Steerpike wrote:
> Are the headings (technical, projects, etc) on the left side ‘sections’, in txp lingo? And the items below, are they articles assigned to the sections? If not, what is the structure?
Yup, that’s exactly right. I was trying to set up a structure like the existing static structure, but more easily extensible. Each heading in the sidebar (or in the header, on the section pages) links to a section, and each link below that is an individual article in that section.
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