NASA Go Live With Textpattern
It’s always nice to see a high profile organization or company using an open source CMS to develop their site with. I was especially impressed with NASA’s latest offering, Astrobiology.
They’ve used a heavily modified Textpattern setup, 3,100 lines of custom plugin code to be precise. Although the site is still in the bug finding/fixing stage, it looks great and runs very smoothly too. Here’s what the designer had to say about it.
We just went live today, but I consider it still very much between alpha and beta with lots of things still pretty rough and/or not quite working, but I thought I’d share it with everyone anyway. The next stage is to fix bugs and focus on social networking features. Please use the comment box at the bottom if you want!
Thanks to a bunch of folks who helped me with my questions over the past few months!!!
I think its a pretty ambitious use of Txp but so far it can handle everything we want. We’ll be upgrading the hardware soon to handle the traffic, so please excuse any slowness for now.
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Nice write up about a nice site. Are you going to do this about all the sites you showcase from now on?
I also think a clear link from the gallery page of the site to you blog article about it would be a good thing. People often wonder which cms to use and your site will help them.
Thx, It’s definitely something I would like to do. I try to encourage people who submit their sites to add as much information about them as possible. I do let people know which cms a particular site is using, there’s a link to the category it’s in on the sites main image page.
It’s like you’ve two different sites, a blog and a gallery with no direct link between them. I mean a one-click link from the sites main image page to here. And one-click link from here to sites image page
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