A friend recently said to me something to the effect of: “if there’s two things you’re never happy with, it’s blog software and jobs.” Ain’t it the truth.
I’d had just about a bloody ‘nuff of Typo, what with constant errors and crippled non-cache performance and the like. So I wrote a lil’ script that’ll export your Typo blog to the plain text Moveable Type export format, and threw the whole mess into TextPattern.
Yeah, TextPattern. Made by Dean Allen. The TextDrive guy. The “Text” in TextDrive, really. If ever there was evidence that my beef with TextDrive isn’t personal, I’d say this is it. Short of maybe a card. On nice stationary.
TextPattern is good. It’s simple, faster than WordPress, well-written for being PHP, and friendly with shared hosting environments. I took some time porting Hemingway, tweaking it and making the colors just so. I’m happy with the way the whole lot looks on your end and works on my end. Hopefully you dig the look too.
Redirects have been put in place for the feeds, and I’ll get around to doing the same for the articles.
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Author: <a href="http://www.jonbro.tk">Jonathan Brodsky</a><br />
Posted: 2005-12-13 10:25:16<br />
<p>It look great! nice job on the port. There are a few things that bugs me about hemmingway though.</p>
<p>1. There is no indication that the navigation is a the bottom of the page. Sometimes it is way, way below the break. Even a simple anchor link would fix that.</p>
<p>2. Clicking on the number of comments does not take me to the comment form. Why? </p>
<p>I hope that textPattern works out well for you.</p>
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Author: Andrew Feinberg<br />
Posted: 2005-12-13 11:56:31<br />
<p>“me to” on JonBro’s post…it took me a good 5-10 minutes to figure out how to post a comment. I may be dimwitted, or the interface isn’t great…or both. </p>
<p>The navigation at the bottom is so far out of left field I can’t begin to describe how out of whack it makes me feel when trying to navigate.</p>
<p>That is all.</p>
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Author: al3x<br />
Posted: 2005-12-13 16:03:24<br />
<p>An anchored link has been added to the lists of articles so you can easily jump to comments. Sorry, just something obvious I left out.</p>
<p>As for the navigation at the bottom: I like it that way. It’s part of what drew me to Hemmingway. It forces the reader to scan a few posts before they can read about me, browse through the categories, or wander off to another site. I’ll consider if and where an anchor link would be appropriate, but I’m not sweating it.</p>
<p>Thanks for your thoughts, guys.</p>
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Author: <a href="http://www.jonbro.tk">Jonathan Brodsky</a><br />
Posted: 2005-12-13 16:59:08<br />
<p>hey, thats cool man… yeah, I like the navigation, it is a really welcome change from the top bar / side bar navigation that is in <em>every single website.</em></p>
<p>It is also nice to see that you got rid of the negative letter spacing on the title. Everything just looks much more restrained now.</p>
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Author: <a href="http://seansantry.com">Sean</a><br />
Posted: 2005-12-21 22:33:01<br />
<p>I had the exact same thoughts about a) losing typo and b) porting hemingway to Textpattern today. Came across this entry Googling for “export Typo to Textpattern.”</p>
<p>Care to share your script for the export?</p>
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