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Templates and Textplates
It's easy to start up a new website because there are so many templates about. Many use old markup, tables for layout and bloated code. They look good at first glance but on a reasonably busy website they are murder to update and often need the services of a web designer just to maintain them. That's possibly why web designers use them - it keeps them in a job!
Textplates '07 is this year's competition for templates designed for Textpattern. Last year's contest produced many standards-compliant, easy-to-use, easy-to-adapt as well as beautiful templates. This year's Textplates promises to be even better! There have been some excellent site designs on the TXP forum recently.
I've entered a version of this website as a template. It is called Texty because it's non-graphical and you can see and download a version of Texty here. Alternatively, it can be seen in the very cool Textplates Browser. If you are looking for a template that is easy to adapt to your needs, Textplates is the place to visit, especially after June 27 when the competition ends.
A new txp template called Flexy will be arriving shortly. Watch this space!
said Peter · #In the installation instructions for minim you have the puzzling instruction, “transfer ‘copper.ttf’ to … the folder that contains public_html.” WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? There is no file whose name contains “public,” and I am assuming that if you meant the site’s root directory, you would have said so. So where does this file go. Please specify the path from the directory containing the directories files, images, and textpattern (what I think of as the root).
As this site is powered by TextPattern, and as previews of my comment indicate that textile markup is not honored, how would one go about enabling textile in comments?
said Setemkia FallingTree · #Sorry for the confusion. By “the folder that contains public_html” I mean the folder outside the root directory – in other words the folder that contains the root directory.
Re Textile, my personal preference is to not use it but to use HTML, so I had it disabled in Preferences. I have now turned it on for this site. In Minim template, just do likewise.
said Peter · #