Category Archives: Textpattern

communigator content starts going up

Posted on January 22, 2008 by Craig

The first batch of stories from the Fall 2007 communigator were released to the Web this afternoon. Each issue is a new “section” in the magazine’s instance of the Textpattern content management system. The biggest workflow change with this issue … Continue reading →

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Textpattern Solutions

Posted on August 10, 2007 by Craig

I received of a copy of the book Textpattern Solutions this week (Thanks, Pete). The timing is good because I’m working on some enhancements to a site and there are a lot of good ideas in it. One problem I … Continue reading →

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New Flash video Webcasts posted

Posted on July 12, 2007 by Craig

I posted seven new Webcasts of sessions from the UF Institute on Journalism and Media yesterday. There are several notable differences from prior Webcasts. They were not originally presented live. They were recorded live into iMovie and exported as flv … Continue reading →

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Lightbox plugin added to College News

Posted on April 30, 2007 by Craig

I added the bas_lightbox plugin (alt link) to the Textpattern instance that runs College News. The plugin implements Lightbox 2 and allows you to use it within articles to create image galleries or enlarge-able images. Here’s the first story to … Continue reading →

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Geeking out over Web stats

Posted on November 30, 2006 by Craig

I happened up SlimStat this morning while looking for a Textpattern plugin to do something else. I found it via the wet_slimpattern plugin. I installed it first on one of the servers that runs Apache and it worked great. Then … Continue reading →

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News5 really gets moving in Textpattern

Posted on May 17, 2006 by Craig

Mark at News5 really got going this week in Textpattern, posting a bunch of new stories.

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News5 Hurricane Center pages move into Textpattern

Posted on May 12, 2006 by Craig

Just in time for the beginning of Hurricane season, I worked with News5 to set up the News5 Hurricane Center as a Textpattern section. We first devoted a section of the news area on the station’s Web site to regularly … Continue reading →

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WUFT TV News site launches

Posted on March 24, 2006 by Craig

We took the wraps off the new WUFT TV News section of the station’s Web site yesterday. Currently, all of the content there is recycled from the previous version of the news pages. This is the first broadcast station news … Continue reading →

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More Textpattern love

Posted on February 17, 2006 by Craig

After the success with Newszine and College News, I started transitioning Webcasts from being static pages to being Textpattern driven. This week, after getting a submission for College News that wasn’t suitable for there, but would be suitable for a … Continue reading →

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College News moved to Textpattern

Posted on February 1, 2006 by Craig

Yes, I just rebuilt the darn thing in WordPress. However, my experience setting up Textpattern for the content management of Newszine showed me that it was the better tool for the job. And what better time to do it than … Continue reading →

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