It took a while but I have finally managed to convert my blog from Textpattern to Wordpress. The conversion process was made easier by the import utility provided by Wordpress, but a considerable amount of time and energy had to be expended to tidy up and reformat the content.
Then there’s the usual search for a [...]
I recently downloaded Windows Live Writer, which is still currently in beta. I was curious to know how Microsoft’s free desktop blogging application compares to w.bloggar, the popular free weblog client by
The video clip is hosted by Google Video and can be accessed via the Acrobat Flash applet embedded below:
Just click on the “play” button to run the clip. It is only a short video (one minute length), showing Daniel throwing his tantrum.
Out of the box Textpattern does not provide the meta “description” tag for each article. Although there’s a keywords field available for each article under the “Advanced Options” link on the “write” page, the keywords tag is not included in the default template.
I wanted to implement custom meta tags such as description and keywords on [...]
Warren’s Playpen is a website which I set up a few months ago for my son. Warren loves to scribble, so I thought I would encourage him by setting up a personal website to showcase his doodles.
Recently I tried to do a search on Google using the term “Warren Tam” and I was presently surprised [...]
I have been using Textpattern to power this site for a few months now. While Textpattern is a really great piece of blogging software, in fact it is more like a light CMS, one of its more glaring shortcoming is the lack of support for XML-RPC.
XML-RPC allows remote procedure calls to be made over the [...]
In my “last post”:http://www.dannytam.com/blog/101/the-other-textual-thoughts-blog I mentioned briefly about the “blog name generator”:http://weblogs.about.com/library/blblognamegenerator.htm. It is such a cool tool that I decided to describe more about it.
Briefly, the tool is a free service provided by about.com to help bloggers choose a name for their site. It is basically a random name generator. You can choose between [...]
I came across “another blog”:http://textualthoughts.com/ with the name Textual Thoughts. Coincidentally the domain textualthoughts.com was also set up in January 2006, approximately the same time that I set up my blog here.
For the record my first post here is dated 2nd January and textualthoughts.com domain was created on 16 Jan 2006.
As explained by the [...]
This “colour wheel”:http://www.platywebs.com.au/colourwheel.php is a very helpful aid in choosing colours for web design. Courtesy of “Platywebs”:http://www.platywebs.com/.
“TXP magazine”:http://txpmagazine.kbbu.de/ recently published “an article”:http://txpmagazine.kbbu.de/article/textpattern-versus-wordpress which compares the relative strengths of Textpattern and Wordpress. Apparently the article was triggered by the release of Wordpress 2.0 late last year and also by “defections”:http://peterflaschner.com/archives/248 of a few high profile Textpattern sites to the Wordpress camp. After reading the article I thought that now would be a good idea to share my own 2 cents pertaining to the issue.
I have been looking for ways to integrate Flickr into Textpattern and came across this cool plugin by Ralph von der Heyden (Thanks Ralph). It takes advantage of Flickr’s API to allow integration of Flickr photosets directly into a Textpattern powered blog. I would not hesitate to recommend this plugin to any Flickr member who [...]
It has been said that the world wide web will eventually evolve into the Social Web. And we can see it materialising with the increasing popularity of social software web services such as Del.icio.us, Furl and Blogrolling.
Del.icio.us has been described as social bookmarking service. It is a web service for storing and sharing internet links.
Furl [...]
If you are an aspiring blogger but is at a lost when it comes to template design then hop over here for some automagic.
Ever wondered why some corporations have eagerly embraced blogging? This article lists some potential benefits of corporate blogging.
You can also see some testimonials from the bloggers themselves: Corporate Bloggers on blogging.
Came across this definition of corporate blog. I am intrigued by the idea of using internal blogs as tools for collaboration and knowledge management.
To be truthful I was a bit nervous about setting up this blog because it is not anonymous and it is hosted on my personal domain. I guess I was bothered by the potential implications of my blog as there is no official blogging guideline issued by my employer and I am not going to [...]
Andrea Schwandt-Arbogast has posted an interesting article describing how to create an A-Z index using Textpattern. See here for an example of the index. To me this is real esoteric stuff.
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Link to a site which has an informative write up on managing static pages in Textpattern. Check it out.
