I’ve ported Reflection to TXP which is another great style from Pat Heard at “FullAhead”:http://fullahead.org/. This is a fluid full-width style that validates to XHTML 1.0 Strict. It isn’t one of my full-blown systems and is only suitable for TXP 4.0.2 and up because of it’s use of newly introduced tags. There are About and Contact pages built-in but no form mailer is used. If you want archives I’ll leave that up to the user. Search results and category lists have been styled.
This style is very suitable for a corporate site though I have included all the styling necessary for a weblog.
This style should be fairly easy to install for newcomers without the added burden of installing plug-ins.
how about a variant of this theme without the bloggish things (comments, recently, feeds etc). there really is not much out there for small business people like me who are new in the game….
01/10/06
cs
Well the theme looks bloggish simply because TextGarden itself is bloggish but for a business site, simply switching off comments will remove comment related stuff, and as for “feeds” and “recently”, if you don’t need them then take the tags out. There are businesses out there who can probably find a good use for those things so they are included. These themes are not meant to be “set in stone”. You adjust them to your specific needs, but that’s for you to decide not me.
01/22/06
Stuart
I’ve applied to layouts so far to TextPattern, and in both cases, articles assigned to sections other than the defaults do not appear. I’ve investigated this and found that the reason is, the page template code seems to have no provision for displaying ‘any’ section – there are hard-coded section-specific conditional code elements for ‘about’, ‘contact’, etc – but no ‘else’ type handling for other sections. A solution is, of course, to add section specific handling in the code, or, define new section specific pages, but … I’m just curious – why would one not have default handling for ‘any’ section so the layout works ‘out of the box’ for ‘any’ section?
01/23/06
Steerpike
Your use of the term “hard-coded” is misplaced. There are separate blocks of code using conditionals because those sections have their own “pages” and use different formatting. All articles belong to the “default” section as well as the section that you assign them to and could therefore all appear on the front-page if you wanted. This behaviour is controlled in the “sections” tab for each individual section. If you decide that they shouldn’t appear on the front-page you then need to tell TXP what to do with them. This could be done with separate page templates if you prefer or the conditionals that I have used.
01/23/06
Stuart
I’m sure ‘hard coded’ is the wrong term. The point I was trying to make was – with a default installation of txp, if I create new section, associate that section with page “default” (‘uses page’ setting), then write a new article and assign it to this section, I will see my new article both on the front page and, when I click on the article title. But after applying layouts ‘reflection’ and ‘Gentle Calm’, in both cases clicking on the article title on the front page yields a blank page – no content.
Logically, to me, associating a section with page ‘default’ ought to result in pretty basic behavior; I would not expect to have to modify anything to get the article to display in it’s own page – just like the base install. I can, of course, ‘make it work’, I just find it counter-intuitive.
I’ve posted something on this behavior in the forums under ‘layout and CSS discussion’, but have seen no responses.
01/23/06
Steerpike
Interesting and very useful stuff! Glad to have stumbled upon your site.
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