Enough talk, let’s go:
Rounding out the top 10:
Remember, we’re all winners in this competition. Quite literally, every submitter will be getting a 1-year FoingBLOG hosting package.
I will be contacting the winners soon with information on how to collect their prizes.
Congratulations to all the winners and the Textpattern Community!
]]>I’d again like to thank the fantastic team of judges for their support:
]]>The most recent article is showcased with a massive article image (optional), while the three previous articles are subordinate on the front page, with an extremely short article summary off to the side. Updates which will include various color schemes, added functionality, and a multiple author styled variation are coming. Stay posted at http://ersendaam.com/soren
]]>The new templates will be appearing over the next day or so as their demo sites are prepared and published. Details on judging and the results announcement are also forthcoming.
Thanks to all of the great submitters, sponsors and anyone who helped by publicizing or otherwise participating in the competition. You’ve helped make Textplates ’07 a huge success.
Stay tuned for the results.
]]>Version 1.1: Increased contrast for “Dark” template.
]]>When you’re template is finished, send ‘em to tomfadial@gmail.com and include:
I would like to at least be able to give away all of the prizes, so I’m extending the deadline an extra two weeks until 11:59PM EST on Wednesday, July 11th. For those who have already submitted your templates, thank you for your contributions (and punctuality). You may submit revisions or updates until the new deadline or why not get started on a second submission?
Please help spread the word: post about it on your blog, tell a friend, whatever you can do. If you’re unfamiliar with the CMS, feel free to contact me for some tips or check out some of these helpful articles.
]]>When you’re template is finished, send ‘em to tomfadial@gmail.com and include:
No need to worry about whether or not a preview is down or moved, the templates in the browser will be available forever.
Stay tuned for more updates and check out the forum.
]]>To recap, last year saw over 40 submissions with 100,000 downloads and counting, and over a million hits. Since then, the Textpattern community has grown even more and I’m hoping we can top all those numbers this year.
Our fantastic sponsors have provided some truly exciting prizes. SiteGround again stepped up as the featured sponsors, tossing a new 1.66GHz Mac Mini into the pool. Also, Foing is providing a slew of hosting packages for the first 50 submitters and an awesome “Lifetime” account to the winner. Check the prizes page for more information.
The competition will run from today Wednesday, May 16th to June 27th, giving you slackers six weeks to get something in. During this period, I will be posting some tutorials and “How-to’s” to guide those of you who are still unfamiliar with Textpattern or its templating system. Grab the feed to stay up-to-date on all the competition happenings.
I will also announce more details regarding the judges (there are some great volunteers) and rubric in the coming days.
If anyone has any questions, feel free to contact me or post in the forum.
Good luck to everyone.
]]>My template for this website is set up pretty cleanly so I was able to quickly set up a new page template and modify a few forms to get the features I wanted.
Adding these features and other modifications will be a lot simpler if you build your templates to use “misc” type forms as includes. An example template for a “Preview” section can be found below.
<txp:output_form form="Temp_header" />
<body>
<div id="page">
<h1><txp:link_to_home>
<txp:sitename /></txp:link_to_home></h1>
<txp:article_custom form="preview"
section="preview" />
<txp:output_form form="Temp_sidebar
_preview" />
<txp:output_form form="Temp_footer" />
</div>
</body>
</html>
Another useful addition I made to my preview section (other than having a customized sidebar with important information) is a “Bookmarks” area. Using the “Links” content section, you can add and output site-related bookmarks that will only be seen in your preview section.
By adding the following code to your customized sidebar and modifying your existing link output tag (if you’re using it) to exclude your special category, you can have your own admin bookmarks.
<txp:linklist form="bookmarks" category="bookmarks"
limit="10" wraptag="ul" break="li" label="Bookmarks"
labeltag="h4" />
I’ve set up an example section if you want to see what’s possible.
]]>Other features:
Giftwrap is not just a competition piece, it’s an ongoing effort to create the most user friendly and feature rich Textpattern template available.”
]]>In The Woods is a dark and earthy template with an appealing style.
]]>This template was not originally designed by Marko Mihelcic. It was created by “skuteczni.pl” for OpenWebDesign.org
]]>]]>Our fish, Howard and Gretta, always seem so happy even as dozens of strangers watch their every move.
Update: This template was based on andreas01 by Andreas Viklund and will therefore not be entered in the ompetition.
]]>“As most Americans, I have been sucked in by the ladies of Wysteria Lane…especially by Bree. She’s funny, charming, always looks elegant and, most importantly, a red head (or a ginger as Cartman would call us). I thought this set should be simple, warm and understated. As with Bree, the focus should be on the content not the glossy package. :)” – Ryan Arrowsmith
Being one of the first three submitters, Ryan wins a year of free hosting from Glyph Solutions
The package includes 150MB storage, 1.5GB Bandwidth, unlimited FTP and email accounts, mySQL databases and subdomains powered by cPanel.
]]>Update: This template was based on andreas01 by Andreas Viklund and will therefore not be entered in the ompetition.
]]>Being one of the first three submitters, shishira wins a year of free hosting from Glyph Solutions
The package includes 150MB storage, 1.5GB Bandwidth, unlimited FTP and email accounts, mySQL databases and subdomains powered by cPanel.
]]>Being one of the first three submitters, Marko wins a year of free hosting from Glyph Solutions
The package includes 150MB storage, 1.5GB Bandwidth, unlimited FTP and email accounts, mySQL databases and subdomains powered by cPanel.
Update: This template was based on andreas01 by Andreas Viklund and will therefore not be entered in the ompetition.
]]>Go about making your layout as you usually do whether you code it from the ground up or have another approach. It is important to accommodate all aspects of the layout so that certain items such as comments and blogrolls are a part of the design and not an afterthought.
Once you have completed your design, connecting it to the CMS is a cinch. Let us take a look at some areas of a typical template that might need to be integrated.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/.../xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>My Template</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="base.css" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/philosophy" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/philosophy" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3" />
</head>
The typical template header would need to be a little more like this to attach it to the CMS:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/.../xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title><txp:page_title /></title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<txp:css />" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link rel="alternate" href="<txp:feed_link flavor="rss" />" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="<txp:feed_link label="XML" flavor="atom" />" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3" />
</head>
<div id="header">
<h1><a href="/">My Template</a></h1>
</div>
Would become:
<div id="header">
<h1><txp:link_to_home><txp:sitename /></txp:link_to_home></h1>
</div>
<div id="content">
<h2><a href="#">Lorem Ipsum Dolor</a></h2>
<p class="postmeta">Posted Jan 4th to the "Sample" Category ~ Leave a Comment</p>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.</p>
</div>
The posts would require two changes to work properly. First, we would replace their location in the page template with an article output tag like this:
<div id="content">
<txp:article />
</div>
Then, we would modify the “default” article form to match our template:
<h2><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></h2>
<p class="postmeta">Posted <txp:posted /> to the "<txp:category1 link="y" />" Category ~ <txp:comments_invite /></p>
<txp:body />
The tags for basic blog functions such as a recent articles list or search form can all be found inside the administration panel. For example:
<div id="sidebar">
<h3>Recent Articles</h3>
<ul>
<li>Sample</li>
<li>Sample</li>
<li>Sample</li>
<li>Sample</li>
</ul>
<h3>Search</h3>
<form>
<input type="text" name="search" />
</form>
</div>
Would become:
<div id="sidebar">
<txp:recent_articles break="li" label="Recent Articles" labeltag="h3" limit="5" wraptag="ul" />
<h3>Search</h3>
<txp:search_input label="Search" button="Search" size="15" />
</div>
Presto, you now have a finished Textpattern template, now submit it already!
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