Another site goes on-line!
Posted 15 February 2007
I have downloaded TextPattern and I’m not afraid to use it!
Yesterday I unveiled Guntards.net. It’s basically a web forum with a front end based on the TextPattern CMS. It’s not very fancy, but what’s interesting is how I first downloaded the files on the 11th and finished it by Valentine’s Day morning, working in my spare time. The next site I do will probably take even less time. As it is, it’s taking me longer than it should now because I am still not that familiar with CSS and am just learning Textpattern.
Amazingly, the software for all this, the forum, the CMS and the database backend for both of them, is completely free and open source. And it’s also pretty robust, not just hacked up crap.
Textpattern and PunBB are supported through on-line forums and wikis. If I had any questions about how to do something I could just ask in the forums and get instant answers. But this time I didn’t have to post any questions, since everything I needed was available in the wikis (in fact, my method for adding the header to PunBB is a better one than the wiki suggested).
Can I be stopped? I have two more TextPattern-based sites up my sleeve. Stay tuned!
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