Redeployed with Textpattern
It’s been quiet around here lately. I just ducked in from my other work — web design at Develisys and for the .918 Letterpress Club in Lancaster — to spruce things up. This site is now built on Textpattern. The design is not complete; I decided it was more important to redeploy it with the new back-end, rather than languish over all the design details, so that I could get back to publishing some content. Since I actually dismantled my Movable Type installation a couple of months ago, I had no publishing platform other than good old html, making the switch more or less imperative.
Both the design and the entire site framework will continue to evolve, but still, I hope that even the current state of affairs is an improvement over the previous incarnation.
One interesting aspect of the new site, for me, at least, is the use of three sections to divide and manage three, somewhat distinct, areas of interest for me: namely, web design and development , letterpress printing and the manufacture of letterpress type , and the remaining arts, sciences, and miscellaneous diversions that engage me. The flexibility of Textpattern allows me to publish articles to each section, maintaining distinctly different pages for each section, while aggregating content from each section on the homepage, and in secondary elements, like a sidebar, throughout the site. I am sure that this is all quite possible with other CMSs and blogs, including my former Movable Type, but the Textpattern approach makes sense to me.