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Day 1: Textpattern · 26. February 2004, 23:41
Thoughts
One day later and I’m hooked. Textpattern is simply fantastic. The clean functional interface with everything from content to administration to presentation all but a couple of tab clicks away works really, really well. Textile is simplicity itself and its unobtrusive markup doesn’t clutter your content. I’ve only just begun to explore the power of categories and links but again their implementation is logical and empowering.
Links
My only complaint with Textpattern so far is its URL’s (and this is a realtively minor complaint). I would have hoped that I could use http://my.site/section/date/keyword URL’s as permanent article links. This does not appear possible (or at least it is not simple). Mark Pilgrim has a nice implementation of this idea on his weblog (though the Movable Type doesn’t support the idea of sections like Textpattern as far as I know – hence his URLs comprise date and keyword only).
Archives
Dean makes a good argument vis-á-vis archives not being presented chronologically in this Textpattern suppport forum post. I hadn’t really thought about this before but I have to say the categories should be sufficient.
Categories
Posts are limited to two categories. At first I thought this was a limitation, slowly I’m starting to think this is actually a positive thing. A limit of two categories focuses the writer to concentrate on a single issue only. Remember those category based archives – kind of useless if a single post covers everythong from aardvarks to xylophones!
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